Chapter 8. The role of alternatives in promoting progress

Chapters in this book

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