Paul Karl Feyerabend
Farewell to Reason,Â offers a vigorous challenge to the scientific rationalism that underlies Western ideals of â€œprogressâ€ and â€œdevelopment,â€ whose damaging social and ecological consequences are now widely recognized.Â ,For all their variety in theme and occasion, the essays in this book share a consistent philosophical purpose. Whether discussing Greek art and thought, vindicating the churchâ€™s battle with Galileo, exploring the development of quantum physics or exposing the dogmatism of Karl Popper, Feyerabend defends a relativist and historicist notion of the sciences. The appeal to reason, he insists, is empty, and must be replaced by a notion of science that subordinates it to the needs of citizens and communities.,Provocative, polemical and rigorously argued, ,Farewell to Reason,Â will infuriate Feyerabendâ€™s critics and delight his many admirers.
Philosophy,Science,Nonfiction,Science,History Of Science
Farewell to Reason