Feyerabend's perspectivism

• Scientific Perspectivism is the view that all scientific claims are made within a conceptual or experimental perspective.
• Perspectival Realism is the view that many scientific claims are intended to be genuinely about the world.
• Feyerabend himself seems never to have used the term ‘perspectivism’ to designate a philosophical position.
• Nevertheless, I argue that Feyerabend is in fact both a scientific perspectivist and a perspectival realist.
• My worry, developed in this paper, is that his perspectival realism goes too far.

Although, Feyerabend himself seems never to have used the term ‘perspectivism’ to designate a philosophical position, I think his views about science are very well characterized as perspectival. In fact, his later writings contain much that contributes to current thinking about perspectivism. I would like, therefore, to distinguish my own perspectivism from Feyerabend's. In the end, I will argue, his perspectivism is lacking enough of the critical bite that the younger Feyerabend found so attractive in Popper's philosophy.