Contro il metodo. Abbozzo di una teoria anarchica della conoscenza
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Lo studio della storia della scienza dimostra che l'applicazione delle norme inventate dagli epistemologi avrebbe inibito e reso impossibile lo sviluppo scientifico: l'esempio di Galileo e della sua lotta a favore del copernicanesimo dimostra che in tale fase cruciale della storia della scienza hanno avuto un'importanza determinante qualità non certo genuinamente scientifiche, come la fantasia, l'astuzia, la retorica e la propaganda, e che la scienza non avrebbe potuto progredire se in varie circostanze la ragione non fosse stata ridotta al silenzio. In polemica con Popper e Lakatos, per Feyerabend il progresso intellettuale richiede che inventiva e creatività non vengano inibite ma possano svilupparsi e manifestarsi senza freni. Prefazione di Giulio Giorello
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- Pagine: 262
- Data di uscita: 25-09-2013
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This is a challenging book to review. The obvious problems are bad enough: Feyerabend quotes extensively from a multitude of authors that I know poorly or not at all, including philosophers of science (Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos, Carnap, Duhem), other philosophers (Protagoras, Aristotle, Plato, Kant, Hei Leggi tutto
This took forever to read, not because the contents were boring, but because most of it went way over my head. Sometimes, entire pages seem to have been machine-translated from German, to which Feyerabend added Greek and Latin quotes, and cites ten different philosophers and forgotten authors to mak Leggi tutto
Feyerabend writes a difficult book here, but one which is necessary. Taking a radically different perspective on the aesthetics of what theory is, Feyerabend attack one of the scared cows of science and mathematics -- that of consistency. In some ways, Feyerabend could have raised objections more met Leggi tutto
Feyerabend spends nearly half a book on Galileo and his astronomical observations as a paradigmatic example of how science is in fact anarchic rather than methodical. The trouble is, compared to more modern discoveries like DNA, we don't actually know that much about Galileo when it comes to his cel Leggi tutto
Relativist polemic against scientific monopolies. Feyerabend is a physicist and astronomer as well as a philosopher by training. His anti-positivist arguments are made with care and humor. Using Galileo as a case study, he demonstrates that so-called scientific revolutions also invariably break with Leggi tutto
His ideas are super similar/complimentary to those of Quine and Putnam so obviously I loved this. “Even an ‘objective’ enterprise like science which apparently reveals Nature As She Is In Herself intervenes, eliminates, enlarged, produces and codifies the results in a severely standardized way - but Leggi tutto
Okay, so Feyerabend shows that institutionalized science gets directed to institutional ends, ignores questions that are deemed irrelevant, and sometimes presumes that its answers are final rather than preliminary. But this sustained attack on the biases of scientific enterprise seem to invalidate s Leggi tutto
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