کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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1160270 | 1490325 | 2016 | 8 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
• This paper reconstructs Feyerabend's different ‘relativisms’ in his later writings.
• Science in a Free Society remains close to familiar forms of relativism.
• Farewell to Reason moves away from common renderings of relativism, and develops a range of different new forms.
This paper reconstructs, and distinguishes between, Feyerabend's different forms of relativism in his later writings. Science in a Free Society remains close to familiar forms of relativism, while, at the same time, developing an original but under-argued form of political relativism, and rejecting “conversion” models of cultural exchange. Farewell to Reason moves away from common renderings of relativism, and develops a range of different new forms. Central here are links between relativism, skepticism and infallibilism. In the last six years of his life, Feyerabend often criticizes a peculiar radical form of relativism that arguably no-one has ever proposed or defended. In the same context, Feyerabend sketches an “ontological” form of relativism. It combines “Kantian humility”, metaphysical pluralism and constructivism.
Journal: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A - Volume 57, June 2016, Pages 106–113