Paul K Feyerabend
Biographic Data
| ID | 3586799 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul K Feyerabend |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul K |
| FAMILY NAME | Feyerabend |
| SIGNATURE | FEYERABEND P K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 71 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 70 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Calls for Papers
At the founding editor's invitation in 1991-92, the members of the editorial board and the department editors of Common Knowledge wrote individual and small-group calls for papers to be published in the inaugural issue of Spring 1992 and the succeeding issue, Fall 1992. These calls for papers were published among the first group
Potentially Every Culture Is All Cultures
With a focus on the role of Achilles in the Iliad, this essay argues that it is a mistake to assume that languages and cultures are closed totalities impervious to influence from the outside and from internally driven transformations. If we eliminate that assumption, several others likewise become untenable, including the assumption that precise meanings for words or concepts are available in principle. Objectivism and relativism are claimed to b…
Por qué no Platón
Diálogo sobre el método
Límite de la ciencia
Der Begriff der Verständlichkeit in der modernen Physik (1948)
The concept of intelligibility in modern physics (1948)
Philosophy of Nature
xxxii, 260 pages ; 24 cm
Wissenschaftstheoretische Realismus und Die Autorität der Wissenschaften
Essays in Memory of Imre Lakatos
The Network Collective: Rise and Fall of a Scientific Paradigm
First-hand account of the rise and fall of a scientific paradigm Shows how scientific fiction turns to fact Highlights the origin of scientific hype Includes interviews with prominent scientists The network paradigm dominated immunological research from the early 1970s to the late 1980s. The originator, Niels Jerne, hypothesized that the vast diversity of antibodies in each individual forms a network of mutual "idiotypic" recognition, thus regula…
El problema de la existencia de las entidades teóricas
Les recherches philosophiques de Wittgenstein
For and Against Method: Including Lakatos's Lectures on Scientific Method and the Lakatos-Feyerabend Correspondence
Autobiographical Occasions
Theoreticians, Artists and Artisans
The author discusses artists and scientists, comparing the similarities and differences of their activities and views. Providing examples of the ideas of philosophers through the ages, he uses various historical documents to support his analysis
Universals as Tyrants and as Mediators
Science and Relativism: Some Key Controversies in the Philosophy of Science. Larry Laudan
Against Method (revised edition)
Three Dialogues on Knowledge
The Socratic, or dialog, form is central to the history of philosophy and has been the discipline's canonical genre ever since. Paul Feyerabend's Three Dialogues on Knowledge resurrects the form to provide an astonishingly flexible and invigorating analysis of epistemological, ethical and metaphysical problems. He uses literary strategies - of irony, voice and distance - to make profoundly philosophical points about the epistemic, existential and…
Limites De La Ciencia
Knowledge and the Role of Theories
Putnam on Incommensurability
Creativity: A Dangerous Myth
Philosophical papers
For and Against Method: Including Lakatos's Lectures on Scientific Method and the Lakatos-Feyerabend Correspondence
Changing Patterns of Reconstruction
Autobiographical Occasions
On a Recent Critique of Complementarity: Part I
Discussions of the interpretation of quantum theory are at present obstructed by (1) the increasing axiomania in physics and philosophy which replaces fundamental problems by problems of formulation within a certain preconceived calculus, and (2) the decreasing (since 1927) philosophical interest and sophistication both of professional physicists and of professional philosophers which results in the replacement of subtle positions by crude ones a…
On a Recent Critique of Complementarity: Part II
“Bohr was primarily a philosopher, not a physicist, but he understood that natural philosophy ... carries weight only if its every detail can be subjected to the ... test of experiment” (Heisenberg in [59], p. 95). As a result his approach differed from that of the school-philosophers whom he regarded with a somewhat “sceptical attitude, to say the least” ([59], p. 129) and whose lack of interest in “the important viewpoint which had emerged duri…
Zahar on Einstein
Creativity: A Dangerous Myth
Frontiers of Science and Philosophy
Mach's theory of research and its relation to Einstein
Zahar on Mach, Einstein and Modern Science
Dialectical Materialism and the Quantum Theory
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Professor Bohm's Philosophy of Nature
Linguistic Arguments and Scientific Method
(1) Linguistic arguments play a very important role in contemporary philosophical discussion. It is believed that they are capable of refuting age old philosophical theses and to provide a short-cut to the solution of philosophical problems. If this belief should turn out to be correct, then we would possess here a very powerful eliminative instrument which could be applied even before a theory has been developed to such an extent that empirical …
From Incompetent Professionalism to Professionalized Incompetence—The Rise of a New Breed of Intellectuals
A Note on Two ‘Problems’ of Induction
Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
Against Method (revised edition)
The Structure of Science
Patterns of Discovery
Knowledge and the Role of Theories
Putnam on Incommensurability
Logic, Literacy, and Professor Gellner
Imre Lakatos
El problema de la existencia de las entidades teóricas
Theoreticians, Artists and Artisans
The author discusses artists and scientists, comparing the similarities and differences of their activities and views. Providing examples of the ideas of philosophers through the ages, he uses various historical documents to support his analysis
Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
Eine Bemerkung zumNeumannschen Beweis
Das Problem der Existenz theoretischer Entitäten
Patterns of Discovery
Professor Bohm's Philosophy of Nature
Metascience
Frontiers of Science and Philosophy
The Origins of Science. An Inquiry into the Foundations of Western Thought . Ernest H. Hutten
The Concept of the Positron; A Philosophical Analysis
Conjectures and Refutations. The Growth of Scientific Knowledge . Karl R. Popper
Die Sprachphilosophischen und Ontologischen Grundlagen im Spatwerk Ludwig Wittgensteins
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Die sprachphilosophischen und ontologischen Grundlagen im Spätwerk Ludwig Wittgensteins. By Ernst Konrad Specht. Kantstudien, Ergänzungsheft 84. (Köln: Kölner Universitätsverlag. 1963. Pp. 176. Price 22). P. K. Feyerabend P. K. Feyerabend Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 16, Issue 62, January 1966, Pages 79–80, https://doi.org/10.23…
The Structure of Science
Dialectical Materialism and the Quantum Theory
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On the Improvement of the Sciences and the Arts, and the Possible Identity of the Two
On a Recent Critique of Complementarity: Part I
Discussions of the interpretation of quantum theory are at present obstructed by (1) the increasing axiomania in physics and philosophy which replaces fundamental problems by problems of formulation within a certain preconceived calculus, and (2) the decreasing (since 1927) philosophical interest and sophistication both of professional physicists and of professional philosophers which results in the replacement of subtle positions by crude ones a…
A Note on Two ‘Problems’ of Induction
Linguistic Arguments and Scientific Method
(1) Linguistic arguments play a very important role in contemporary philosophical discussion. It is believed that they are capable of refuting age old philosophical theses and to provide a short-cut to the solution of philosophical problems. If this belief should turn out to be correct, then we would possess here a very powerful eliminative instrument which could be applied even before a theory has been developed to such an extent that empirical …
On a Recent Critique of Complementarity: Part II
“Bohr was primarily a philosopher, not a physicist, but he understood that natural philosophy ... carries weight only if its every detail can be subjected to the ... test of experiment” (Heisenberg in [59], p. 95). As a result his approach differed from that of the school-philosophers whom he regarded with a somewhat “sceptical attitude, to say the least” ([59], p. 129) and whose lack of interest in “the important viewpoint which had emerged duri…
Consolations for the Specialist
‘I have been hanging people for years, but I have never had all this fuss before.’ (Remark made by Edward ‘Lofty’ Milton, Rhodesia's part time executioner on the occasion of demonstrations against the death penalty.) ‘He was’—says Time Magazine (15 March 1968)—‘professionally incapable of understanding the commotion.’ Introduction . Ambiguity of presentation . Puzzle solving as a criterion of science . Function of normal science . Three difficult…
VIII. Classical Empiricism
Materialism and the mind—body problem
This paper has a twofold purpose. First, it defends materialism against a certain type of attack which seems to be based upon a truism but which is nevertheless completely off the mark. And secondly it intends to put philosophy in its proper place. It occurs only too often that attempts to arrive at a coherent picture of the world are held up by philosophical bickering and are perhaps even given up before they can show their merits. It seems to m…
Zahar on Einstein
Imre Lakatos
Essays in memory of Imre Lakatos
Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
Philosophy (52 works) · Epistemology (43 works) · Computer Science (23 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (18 works) · Library science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Philosophy of science (11 works) · Philosophy, Science, and History (11 works) · Mathematics (9 works)