Science in a Free Society (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
222
Utgivningsdatum
1978-01-01
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New ed
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Verso Books
Illustrationer
black & white illustrations
Dimensioner
203 x 133 x 13 mm
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259 g
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1
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434:B&W 5.25 x 8 in or 203 x 133mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Matte Lam
ISBN
9780860917533

Science in a Free Society

av Paul Feyerabend
Häftad,  Engelska, 1978-01-01
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No study in the philosophy of science created such controversy in the seventies as Paul Feyerabend's Against Method. In this work, Feyerabend reviews that controversy, and extends his critique beyond the problem of scientific rules and methods, to the social function and direction of science today. In the first part of the book, he launches a sustained and irreverent attack on the prestige of science in the West. The lofty authority of the "expert" claimed by scientists is, he argues, incompatible with any genuine democracy, and often merely serves to conceal entrenched prejudices and divided opinions with the scientific community itself. Feyerabend insists that these can and should be subjected to the arbitration of the lay population, whose closes interests they constantly affect-as struggles over atomic energy programs so powerfully attest. Calling for far greater diversity in the content of education to facilitate democratic decisions over such issues, Feyerabend recounts the origin and development of his own ideas-successively engaged by Brecht, Ehrenhaft, Popper, Mill and Lakatos-in a spirited intellectual self-portrait. Science in a Free Society is a striking intervention into one of the most topical debates in contemporary culture and politics.
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Shrewd ... acute ... robustly anti-parochial ... The issues raised are of the first importance ... Feyerabend's plea for a new catholicity of understanding is often poignant and persuasive. * Nature * An audacious thinker, a brilliant polemicist, an iconoclast ... exhilarating. * Publishers Weekly * A stimulating work of philosophy in the best Socratic tradition. * Time Out *

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Paul Feyerabend was Professor of Philosophy at UC Berkeley, and Professor of the Philosophy of Science at the Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich. He died in 1994. His books include Philosophical Papers, Farewell to Reason, and Against Method.

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