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Farewell to Reason is a 1987 book by the Austrian philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend. The book includes some reprinted essays published in other venues and was published by Verso Books, which also published Against Method and Science in a Free Society.
- Paul K. Feyerabend
- 1987
Jan 1, 2001 · Farewell to Reason offers a vigorous challenge to the scientific rationalism that underlies Western ideals of “progress” and “development,” whose damaging social and ecological consequences are now widely recognized.
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- Paperback
- Paul Karl Feyerabend
Jan 1, 2020 · 1 In what follows I concentrate on the long first essay of Farewell to Reason, ‘Notes on Relativism.’ The volume itself covers a wide range of topics including Xenophanses’ arguments against the Homeric gods, progress in philosophy, Popperian critical rationalism, the relationship of Mach’s views to Einstein’s, Aristotle’s ideas ...
May 5, 2020 · Farewell to Reason offers a vigorous challenge to the scientific rationalism that underlies Western ideals of "progress" and "development," whose damaging social and ecological consequences...
- Paul Feyerabend
- Verso Books, 2020
- reprint
- Farewell to Reason
Critical notice of Paul Feyerabend's Farewell to Reason. The basic difficulty with Feyerabend's argument is not that he goes too far in rejecting traditional philosophical views but that he does not go far enough.
- Andrew Lugg
Dec 31, 2014 · Collection of essays rewritten for publication in book form. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Farewell to Reason offers a vigorous challenge to the scientific rationalism that underlies Western ideals of “progress” and “development,” whose damaging social and ecological consequences are now widely recognized.
