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Book SynopsisThis collection provides a series of essays interpreting and critically evaluating the philosophy of Paul Feyerabend. It includes innovative historical scholarship on Feyerabend's take on topics such as realism, empiricism, mimesis, voluntarism, pluralism, materialism, and the mind-body problem, as well as debates in the philosophy of physics.
Table of ContentsIntroduction. Paul Feyerabend's Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century Jamie Shaw and Karim Bschir; 1. Feyerabend on Art and Science Chiara Ambrosio; 2. The Coherence of Feyerabend's Pluralist Realism Hasok Chang; 3. Feyerabend's General Theory of Scientific Change Hakob Barseghyan; 4. Feyerabend's Theoretical Pluralism: An Investigation of the Epistemic Value of False Theories K. Brad Wray; 5. Epistemological Anarchism Meets Epistemic Voluntarism: Feyerabend's Against Method and van Fraassen's The Empirical Stance Martin Kusch; 6. Feyerabend Never was an Eliminative Materialist: Feyerabend's Meta-Philosophy and the Mind-Body Problem Jamie Shaw; 7. Feyerabend's Reevaluation of Scientific Practice: Quantum Mechanics, Realism and Niels Bohr Daniel Kuby; 8. On Feyerabend, General Relativity, and 'Unreasonable' Universes J. B. Manchak; 9. Feyerabend, Science, and Scientism Ian James Kidd; 10. Matthew Brown – Against Expertise: A Lesson from Feyerabend's Science in a Free Society? Matthew Brown; 11. A Way Forward for Citizen Science: Taking Advice from a Madman Sarah M. Roe.
