Over the past thirty years Paul Feyerabend has developed an extremely distinctive and influentical approach to problems in the philosophy of science. The most important and seminal of his published essays are collected here in two volumes, with new introductions to provide an overview and historical perspective on the discussions of each part. Volume 1 presents papers on the interpretation of scientific theories, together with papers applying the views developed to particular problems in philosophy and physics. The essays in volume 2 examine the origin and history of an abstract rationalism,...

Over the past thirty years Paul Feyerabend has developed an extremely distinctive and influentical approach to problems in the philosophy of science. The most important and seminal of his published essays are collected here in two volumes, with new introductions to provide an overview and historical perspective on the discussions of each part. Volume 1 presents papers on the interpretation of scientific theories, together with papers applying the views developed to particular problems in philosophy and physics. The essays in volume 2 examine the origin and history of an abstract rationalism,...

Essays discuss relativism, knowledge, creativity, progress, Aristotle, Galileo, cultural pluralism, and reason.

Ganz Unterschiedliches wird in diesem Briefwechsel verhandelt: Wissenschaftstheorie, Gesellschaftstheorie, Politik; es wird aber auch der Wissenschaftsbetrieb verhöhnt; ernst nehmen sich die Briefpartner, sie verfügen aber zugleich über den notwendigen Humor, sich und die Kollegen und den Wissenschaftsbetrieb auch in seinen selbstparodistischen Elementen wahrzunehmen.