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Chapter 8. The role of alternatives in promoting progress
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Chapters in this book
- i-vi i
- Preface vii
- Contents ix
- Analytic Table Of Contents 1
- Introduction 17
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Part I. Feyerabend's Philosophical Development
- Chapter 1. Facing Feyerabend. Some preliminary problems 25
- Chapter 2. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Meaning and Ontology 43
- Chapter 3. Karl Popper. Using and abusing critical rationalism 77
- Chapter 4. Felix Ehrenhaft. The impotence of experiment 116
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Part II. Feyerabend’s Assault on Conceptual Conservativism
- Chapter 5. Incommensurability as attack on conceptual conservativism 123
- Chapter 6. Incommensurability and scientific realism 180
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Part III. Feyerabend’s Philosophical Pluralism
- Chapter 7. Feyerabend's methods 206
- Chapter 8. The role of alternatives in promoting progress 227
- Chapter 9. Feyerabend’s philosophical pluralism (1950s-1990s) 262
- Literature 289
- Index 317
Chapters in this book
- i-vi i
- Preface vii
- Contents ix
- Analytic Table Of Contents 1
- Introduction 17
-
Part I. Feyerabend's Philosophical Development
- Chapter 1. Facing Feyerabend. Some preliminary problems 25
- Chapter 2. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Meaning and Ontology 43
- Chapter 3. Karl Popper. Using and abusing critical rationalism 77
- Chapter 4. Felix Ehrenhaft. The impotence of experiment 116
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Part II. Feyerabend’s Assault on Conceptual Conservativism
- Chapter 5. Incommensurability as attack on conceptual conservativism 123
- Chapter 6. Incommensurability and scientific realism 180
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Part III. Feyerabend’s Philosophical Pluralism
- Chapter 7. Feyerabend's methods 206
- Chapter 8. The role of alternatives in promoting progress 227
- Chapter 9. Feyerabend’s philosophical pluralism (1950s-1990s) 262
- Literature 289
- Index 317