Paul Karl Feyerabend Livres

Parallèlement à la rédaction de son ouvrage majeur, Contre la Méthode, Feyerabend travaillait au début des années 70 à une Philosophie de la nature de grande ampleur. Bien qu'inachevé, ce livre forme néanmoins une totalité cohérente, présentant les fondements de sa pensée et offrant une sorte de visite dans l'atelier du philosophe. Cette étude comparatiste appuyée sur une analyse historique de la pratique scientifique et sur une grande diversité de témoignages ethnologiques, montre qu'il existe des alternatives sérieuses à la vision scientifique du monde. Feyerabend étudie tout particulièrement la transformation de la pensée qui marqua l'Antiquité grecque : le passage du Mythos au Logos est pour lui un moyen de mettre en présence deux représentations du monde incommensurables, dualité d'où ont jailli bon nombre des valeurs, des idées et des normes constitutives de la science et de la pensée occidentales. En montrant que le mythe et l'art sont des concurrents sérieux, respectables et surtout nécessaires de la science, Feyerabend défend un pluralisme dénué de ressentiment mais non de passion.

Passionné et provocant, ce plaidoyer pour un savoir libertaire, contre tout carcan méthodologique, se fonde sur une analyse minutieuse des coups de force qui ont fondé l'évolution de la science. Dévoilant les ruses de l'histoire des sciences, critiquant le dogmatisme caché des épistémologies modernes, Feyerabend renouvelle avec véhémence et humour le débat sur la raison. "Esquisse d'une théorie anarchiste de la connaissance", ce livre est maintenant devenu un classique de la philosophie des sciences. Paul Feyerabend (1924-1994)

This collection showcases Feyerabend's philosophical papers, highlighting his influential ideas published from 1960 to 1980. It offers insights into his critical views on scientific methodology and the nature of knowledge, reflecting his unique approach to philosophy of science. The compilation serves as a valuable resource for understanding his impact on contemporary thought and the debates surrounding scientific practices during that era.

Feyerabend's influential approach to the philosophy of science is showcased through a collection of his seminal essays in two volumes. Volume 1 focuses on scientific theory interpretation and its application to specific philosophical and physical problems. In Volume 2, he explores the origins and implications of abstract rationalism on scientific philosophy and research methods. Advocating for a comprehensive pluralism, Feyerabend draws on his extensive knowledge of scientific history, highlighting the broader philosophical and political ramifications of differing perspectives.

Exploring the interplay between realism, rationalism, and scientific method, this collection delves into foundational philosophical issues. The first volume examines the nature of scientific inquiry and its implications for understanding reality. The second volume addresses challenges related to empiricism, focusing on the limitations and scope of sensory experience in knowledge acquisition. Together, these works provide a comprehensive analysis of critical philosophical debates, emphasizing the importance of method in the pursuit of truth.

From flea bites to galaxies, from love affairs to shadows, Paul Feyerabend reveled in the sensory and intellectual abundance that surrounds us. He found it equally striking that human senses and human intelligence are able to take in only a fraction of these riches. "This a blessing, not a drawback," he writes. "A superconscious organism would not be superwise, it would be paralyzed." This human reduction of experience to a manageable level is the heart of Conquest of Abundance, the book on which Feyerabend was at work when he died in 1994. Prepared from drafts of the manuscript left at his death, working notes, and lectures and articles Feyerabend wrote while the larger work was in progress, Conquest of Abundance offers up rich exploration and startling insights with the charm, lucidity, and sense of mischief that are his hallmarks. Feyerabend is fascinated by how we attempt to explain and predict the mysteries of the natural world, and he looks at the ways in which we abstract experience, explain anomalies, and reduce wonder to formulas and equations. Through his exploration of the positive and negative consequences of these efforts, Feyerabend reveals the "conquest of abundance" as an integral part of the history and character of Western civilization. "Paul Feyerabend . . . was the Norman Mailer of philosophy. . . . brilliant, brave, adventurous, original and quirky."—Richard Rorty, New Republic "As much a smudged icon as a philosophical position holder, [Feyerabend] was alluring and erotic, a torch singer for philosophical anarchy."—Nancy Maull, New York Times Book Review "[A] kind of final testament of Feyerabend's thought . . . Conquest of Abundance is as much the product of a brilliant, scintillating style as of an immense erudition and culture. . . . This book is as abundant and rich as the world it envisions."—Arkady Plotnitsky, Chicago Tribune

Finished only weeks before his death in 1994, this autobiography traces the trajectory that led Feyerabend him from an isolated, lower-middle-class childhood in Vienna to the height of international academic success as one of this century's most influential intellectuals.

Modern philosophy of science has paid great attention to the understanding of scientific ‘practice’, in contrast to concentration on scientific ‘method’. Paul Feyerabend’s acclaimed work, which has contributed greatly to this new emphasis, shows the deficiencies of some widespread ideas about the nature of knowledge. He argues that the only feasible explanations of scientific successes are historical explanations, and that anarchism must now replace rationalism in the theory of knowledge.The third edition of this classic text contains a new preface and additional reflections at various points in which the author takes account both of recent debates on science and on the impact of scientific products and practices on the human community. While disavowing populism or relativism, Feyerabend continues to insist that the voice of the inexpert must be heard. Thus many environmental perils were first identified by non-experts against prevailing assumptions in the scientific community. Feyerabend’s challenging reassessment of scientific claims and understandings are as pungent and timely as ever.

Conquest of Abundance was prepared from drafts of the manuscript left at the author's death, working notes, lectures and articles Feyerabend wrote while the larger work was in progress. It offers up exploration and insights with the charm, and sense of mischief that are his hallmarks. schovat popis

The text opens with an imaginary dialogue between Lakatos and Feyerabend, which Matteo Motterlini has constructed, based on their published works, to synthesize their positions and arguments. Part one presents the transcripts of the last lectures on method that Lakatos delivered. Part two, Feyerabend's response, consists of a previously published essay on anarchism, which began the attack on Lakatos's position that Feyerabend later continued in "Against Method." The third and longest section consists of the correspondence Lakatos and Feyerabend exchanged on method and many other issues and ideas, as well as the events of their daily lives, between 1968 and Lakatos's death in 1974.