Erik L. Midtsveen 🏳️⚧️🇳🇴 started reading Beyond good and evil by Friedrich Nietzsche (Penguin classics)
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Erik L. Midtsveen 🏳️⚧️🇳🇴 started reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche (Penguin classics)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche (Penguin classics)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (German: Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen, also …
Erik L. Midtsveen 🏳️⚧️🇳🇴 started reading God and the State by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
God and the State by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
God and the State (called by its author The Historical Sophisms of the Doctrinaire School of Communism) is an …
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Erik L. Midtsveen 🏳️⚧️🇳🇴 finished reading The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin
The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin
The Conquest of Bread is Peter Kropotkin’s most extensive study of human needs and his outline of the most rational …
Erik L. Midtsveen 🏳️⚧️🇳🇴 reviewed Against Method by Paul Feyerabend
Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge is a 1975 book about the …
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.
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.
Erik L. Midtsveen 🏳️⚧️🇳🇴 finished reading Against Method by Paul Feyerabend
Against Method by Paul Feyerabend
Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge is a 1975 book about the philosophy of science by Paul …
Erik L. Midtsveen 🏳️⚧️🇳🇴 finished reading Hard Road Out by Jihyun Park
FreeKorea
I ended up going to my local library, connecting to their Wi-Fi, and finding a less-than-official audiobook version of this.
Erik L. Midtsveen 🏳️⚧️🇳🇴 started reading Against Method by Paul Feyerabend
Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge is a 1975 book about the …
New book, yeah!
Erik L. Midtsveen 🏳️⚧️🇳🇴 finished reading Piraterna by Anders Rydell
Around mid-2024, I bought this book and read about half of it, and I ended up finding and reading the rest through an alternative online platform in .pdf format. The cover is a pretty clear hint about where you might find a digital copy.
Around mid-2024, I bought this book and read about half of it, and I ended up finding and reading the rest through an alternative online platform in .pdf format. The cover is a pretty clear hint about where you might find a digital copy.
Erik L. Midtsveen 🏳️⚧️🇳🇴 finished reading The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
"Shoshana Zuboff, named "the true prophet of the information age" by the Financial Times, has …
I started reading this around mid-2021 but only got about 17% through it. Then I found a way to listen to the rest online through some unofficial channels.
Erik L. Midtsveen 🏳️⚧️🇳🇴 finished reading Lsd: My Problem Child by Albert Hofmann
This book is Albert Hofmann’s personal diary called LSD: My Problem Child. I started reading it sometime around March 2024 but don’t remember the exact date. I finished it around May Day 2024. Psychedelics, especially LSD, are one of my favorite subjects.
Erik L. Midtsveen 🏳️⚧️🇳🇴 started reading Hard Road Out by Jihyun Park
FreeKorea
I started reading this and have finished half of it, I plan to finish the rest soon.
Erik L. Midtsveen 🏳️⚧️🇳🇴 finished reading Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
Permanent Record is a 2019 autobiography by Edward Snowden, whose revelations sparked a global debate …
I listened to the audiobook of this via less-than-legal means back in 2023.
Erik L. Midtsveen 🏳️⚧️🇳🇴 finished reading Digital revolusjon by Hilde Nagell
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I started reading this sometime in mid 2024.