Show threadRobertJacksonJan 13

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Back in the early 1970s, as a student at Warwick, I went to a MathsSoc speaker event where the guest speaker was talking about Paul Feyerabend.

A rather rude voice popped up at the back of the room expounding and arguing with the guest speaker about the meaning of something or other that Feyerabend had said.

"No. Feyerabend agreed with me." was the guest speaker's gentle, polite, withering response. One that the room rather enjoyed.

#Feyerabend

Show threadJames Endres Howell has movedApr 23, 2025

Feyerabend: "My life has been the result of accidents, not of goals and principles. My intellectual work forms only an insignificant part of it. Love and personal understanding are much more important. Leading intellectuals with their zeal for objectivity kill these personal elements. They are criminals, not the leaders of mankind."

... published in 1991 in his entry in WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA

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#philosophy #love #feyerabend

VioletteNov 17, 2024
Paul Feyerabend : Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge, (1975).

A must read

#anarchy #epistemologies #science #feyerabend
AlgerSanPinSep 23, 2024
With the pleasure that comes from reminiscing, today I’m quoting Feyerabend, and this wonderful shot came to mind (© AGF Bernardinatti, Trento, 1992, in the book "Ambiguità e armonia" Editori Laterza, 1998), where the epistemological anarchist and metaphysician of abundance is amusingly posing after the photographer asked him to assume the attitude of an important philosopher. Feyerabend emphasized the importance of maintaining a genuine sense of humor and the need to abandon the pedantic and condescending humor often found in expert communities, which rarely makes one laugh but serves as an intimidating mechanism to preserve power and distance themselves from the general public (see the introduction to Against Method). For all this and much more that doesn't fit in a single post, I highly recommend keeping in mind the work of this controversial and multifaceted philosopher. His words make more sense with each passing day.

#Feyerabend #Philosophy #Epistemology #Anarchism #AgainstMethod #ScienceAndHumor #PhilosophersOfScience #HistoryOfIdeas #Metaphysics #humor
Claudia MüllerSep 18, 2024
@istuetzle ich finde, dass paul #feyerabend viel mehr aufmerksamkeit verdient hätte.
Nutt LosJul 20, 2024

Philosophie und Respektlosigkeit - Ein von der Neuzeit unterschätztes Problem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qurQr-Sceys

#Frechheit #Zweifel #Infragestellung #Autoritäten #Autoritarismus #Fragen #WissenWollen #Kindlichkeit #Naivität #Denkprozess #Hegel #Descartes #Platon #Sokrates #Feyerabend #Rorty #Privatheit #privat #Öffentlichkeit #Verletzung #Denken #Identität #Wahrheiten #Glaubenssätze #Identität #Wahrheit #Weltbild #Menschenbild

Philosophie und Respektlosigkeit - Ein von der Neuzeit unterschätztes Problem

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GuyleoMar 6, 2024
Paul Feyerabend
#Feyerabend
HákarlApr 19, 2023

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/science-is-a-strong-link-problem I got this off of here but I don't know who from. Sorry to that person.

A great article which approaches the problems of academia from a fairly specific angle - the general value of the work in the given domain, and how the competitive nature of research funding omits the best work unduly; safety nets with holes too small that catch the innovative as much as the dismal.

There's a few corollaries to this that I'm interested in - there's a sense that various groups are omitted by the same processes - gender / sexual minorities (in this context also meaning women), ethnic minorities, disabled people. Personally I could be an academic in terms of 'can read and synthesise information well' but can't because #adhd and #executiveDysfunction disable me from going through the process of applying. I'd also be really annoying as an academic, which circles back to point one - annoying academics are very important (I <3 #Feyerabend).

Science is a strong-link problem

OR: How to eat fewer asparagus beetles

Experimental History
Rosae Crux: Angra MainyuFeb 27, 2023

#Scobel über #Postmoderne & #Lyotard & Ausübung von Macht, auch in scheinbar neutralen Formen des Wissens wie der Wissenschaft.
#Feyerabend

Anfänge einer Untersuchung, die sich mit Erscheinungen beschäftigt, die später bei Trump virulent wurden.

https://youtu.be/bRuOhMbj4OA

Warum Mainstream-Theorien am Ende sind – Postmoderne | Gert Scobel

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Mark RubinFeb 6, 2023

The scientific method:

“Already by 1970 Paul Feyerabend famously drew the radical conclusion that the only methodological principle that would not impede the progress of science is “anything goes.” Other philosophers of science have suggested, somewhat more plausibly, that there is no *constant* scientific method...or that there is no *single* scientific method” (Susan Haack, 2009, p. 87).

https://t.co/7q3kk7CPOE

#Science
#PhilSci
@philosophyofscience
#ScientificMethod
#Feyerabend