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Author | : Paul Feyerabend |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1789607434 |
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Farewell to Reason offers a vigorous challenge to the scientific rationalism that underlies Western ideals of "progress" and "development," whose damaging social and ecological consequences are now widely recognized. 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 church'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 will infuriate Feyerabend's critics and delight his many admirers.
Author | : Paul K. Feyerabend |
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Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 1990 |
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Author | : Jim Baggott |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2013-08-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1453299149 |
Download Farewell to Reality Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From acclaimed science author Jim Baggot, a lively, provocative, and “intellectually gratifying” critique of modern theoretical physics (The Economist). Where does one draw the line between solid science and fairy-tale physics? Jim Baggott argues that there is no observational or experimental evidence for many of the ideas of modern theoretical physics: super-symmetric particles, super strings, the multiverse, the holographic principle, or the anthropic cosmological principle. Unafraid to challenge prominent theorists, Baggott offers engaging portraits of many central figures of modern physics, including Stephen Hawking, Paul Davies, John D. Barrow, Brian Greene, and Leonard Susskind. Informed, comprehensive, and balanced, Farewell to Reality discusses the latest ideas about the nature of physical reality while clearly distinguishing between fact and fantasy, providing essential and entertaining reading for everyone interested in what we know and don’t know about the nature of the universe and reality itself.
Author | : Charles Templeton |
Publisher | : McClelland & Stewart |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2011-01-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1551994496 |
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For more than twenty years, Charles Templeton was a major figure in the church in Canada and the United States. During the 1950s, he and Billy Graham were the two most successful exponents of mass evangelism in North America. Templeton spoke nightly to stadium crowds of up to thirty thousand people. However, increasing doubts about the validity of the Old Testament and the teachings of the Christian church finally brought about a crisis in his faith and in 1957 he resigned from the ministry. In Farewell to God, Templeton speaks out about his reasons for the abandonment of his faith. In straightforward language, Templeton deals with such subjects as the Creation fable, racial prejudice in the Bible, the identity of Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus’ alienation from his family, the second-class status of women in the church, the mystery of evil, the illusion that prayer works, why there is suffering and death, and the loss of faith in God. He concludes with a positive personal statement: “I Believe.”
Author | : Paul K. Feyerabend |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 1991-08-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0631179186 |
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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 political aspects of common sense and scientific knowledge. He writes about ancient and modern relativism; the authority of science; the ignorance of scientists; the nature of being; and true and false enlightenment. Throughout Three Dialogues on Knowledge is provocative, controversial and inspiring. It is, unlike most current philosophical writing, written for readers with a keen sense of what matters and why.
Author | : Brent D. Slife |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1995-08-03 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780803958630 |
Download What's Behind the Research? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores the main assumptions upon which behavioural science theories are based, offers alternatives and challenges the reader to serious critical thought.
Author | : Echo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 83 |
Release | : 1998 |
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ISBN | : 9781891433009 |
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Release | : 2019 |
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ISBN | : 9781528958363 |
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Author | : James Franklin Harris |
Publisher | : Open Court Publishing |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780812692020 |
Download Against Relativism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Recent decades have witnessed the extraordinary growth of radical relativism, a doctrine which now dominates the entire culture, from popular music to journalism and from religion to school curricula. According to the radical relativist creed, any proposition can be true or false in relation to a chosen framework, the evaluation of fundamental theories or 'paradigms' is beyond argument, there are no universal standards of rationality, and, methodologically, 'Anything goes!'. As James Harris explains in Against Relativism, the new relativism undoes the work of the Enlightenment and inevitably leads to the conclusion that Galileo was wrong to insist that the Earth indeed moves. Succor for relativism has come from many philosophical schools, both Analytic and 'Continental'. Among the sources of the new relativism are the collapse of Logical Positivism and the shift within anthropology from a linear evolutionary model to numerous models for understanding human culture. In this detailed critique, Professor Harris has selected the strongest and most plausible arguments for relativism within contemporary academic philosophy. He turns the techniques of relativism against relativism itself, showing that it is ultimately self-refuting or otherwise ineffectual. He demonstrates that Quine's rejection of the analytic-synthetic distinction appeals to the very analytic truths Quine tries to dispel; that Kuhn's celebrated account of paradigms must be either self-refuting or unintelligible; that Rorty cannot avoid presuppposing the epistemological principles he attacks; and that (although feminist criticisms of science exert a welcome corrective) attempts to develop a distinctively 'feminist science'are misconceived and unhelpful to feminism. In all these discussions, the author explains the arguments he is criticizing, for the benefit of the non-specialist reader, so that this work can serve as a partisan but fair introduction to some of the most important of present-day philosophy.
Author | : Paul K. Feyerabend |
Publisher | : Tecnos Editorial S A |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9788430910717 |
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Adiós a la razón' - ¿Ciencia-grupo de presión política o instrumento de investigación? - y - Ciencia como arte son los trabajos de Paul Feyerabend que integran el presente volumen, encabezado por un prólogo a la edición castellana titulado 'Conocimiento para la supervivencia', donde queda resumido el ideal final de la filosofía del autor com las siguientes palabras - '...desarrollemos uma nueva clase de conocimiento que sea humano, no porque incorpore uma idea abstracta de humanidad, sino porque todo el mundo pueda participar em su construcción y cambio, y empleemos este conocimiento para resolver los dos problemas pendientes em la actualidad, el problema de la supervivencia y el problema de la paz; por un lado, la paz entre los humanos y, por otro, la paz entre los humanos y todo el conjunto de la Naturaleza'.