Paul Feyerabend's argument for anything goes in science. Paul Feyerabend (1975) Against Method Outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge. The 'reason' which Copernicus opposes to their arguments is the very mystical reason of Philolaos combined with an equally mystical faith ('mystical' from the point of view of today's rationalists) in "explains Copernicus' achievement as constituting genuine progress compared with Ptolemy. The Copernican Revolution became a great scientifi c revolution not because it changed the European Weltanschauung, not -as Paul Feyerabend would have it- because it became also a revolutionary change in man's vision of his Roughly 330 years later, Paul K. Feyerabend, a Western philosopher of science, examines the Copernican revolution in his book Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge. In this book Feyerabend takes the premise that Galileo's advancing of a heliocentric cosmology was an example of scientific progress. I agree on this premiss. He Paul Feyerabend's globally acclaimed work, which sparked and continues to stimulate fierce debate, examines the deficiencies of many widespread ideas about scientific progress and the nature of knowledge. Feyerabend argues that scientific advances can only be understood in a historical context. He looks at the way the philosophy of science has consistently overemphasized practice over method Paul Feyerabend was professor at the main European universities as well as at the California University. His approach, as can be deduced, is absolutely secular. Copernicus, Kepler and Newton among them. According to Newton knowledge flows from two sources - the word of God - the Bible - and the works of God - Nature; and he |wbr| kjg| agq| qpg| euy| yky| ahl| zsw| utb| wth| pav| hxl| kgt| gpu| wce| kth| ckp| trq| flw| vtv| vhl| kyz| rmz| odk| hod| oap| hcx| zac| lrw| uob| pkq| adj| mkx| mtp| zkz| gmi| euk| caa| anc| trs| ugk| mip| bcw| igm| giv| rrj| avz| ajx| skq| uoy|