Contro il metodo

Abbozzo di una teoria anarchica della conoscenza

by Paul Feyerabend

Paperback, 270 pages

Italian language

Published Sept. 24, 2013

ISBN:: 978-88-07-88233-3

(9 reviews)

Lo studio della storia della scienza dimostra che l applicazione delle norme inventate dagli epistemologi avrebbe inibito e reso impossibile lo sviluppo scientifico: l esempio di Galileo e della sua lotta a favore del copernicanesimo dimostra che in tale fase cruciale della storia della scienza hanno avuto un importanza determinante qualità non certo genuinamente scientifiche, come la fantasia, l astuzia, la retorica e la propaganda, e che la scienza non avrebbe potuto progredire se in varie circostanze la ragione non fosse stata ridotta al silenzio. In polemica con Popper e Lakatos, per Feyerabend il progresso intellettuale richiede che inventiva e creatività non vengano inibite ma possano svilupparsi e manifestarsi senza freni.

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Erik L. Midtsveen 🏳️‍⚧️🇳🇴 reviewed Against Method by Paul Feyerabend

If you’re an anarchist and haven’t read Against Method yet, I recommend picking it up.

4 stars

Paul Feyerabend argued for 'Epistemological Anarchism': that in order to do truly good science, one can't rule out alternative methods, ad hoc hypotheses, mythology, religion and wishful thinking. Using the example of Galileo, he shows how science's greatest strides are made by deliberately being "unscientific" in the way that court scientists tend to think nowadays.

Epistemological Anarchism is a total rejection of the so-called "demarcation problem": the attempt by early 20th century philosophers to distinguish "science" from other realms. It overturns the assumptions of logical positivism and returns us to the conception of knowledge held by antiquity, the scholastics, the Renaissance and everyone else: science can't rule out its perceived opponents by technicality or it would have also undermined the very "pseudoscientists" that developed us our scientific conceptions of today.

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Review of 'Against method' on Goodreads

3 stars

Scientific progress requires anarchism (dadaism - "anything goes") and scientific revolution involves counterfactual argument and propaganda. A fun argument and read, possibly tongue in cheek given a few of the footnotes.