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Paul Feyerabend Science in a Free Society (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Science in a Free Society
- Publication Name
- Science in a Free Society
- Title
- Science in a Free Society
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0860917533
- EAN
- 9780860917533
- ISBN
- 9780860917533
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Genre
- Science, Philosophy
- Topic
- Philosophy & Social Aspects, Individual Philosophers, Criticism, Research & Methodology
- Release Date
- 01/01/1978
- Release Year
- 1978
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 8.6 Oz
- Publication Year
- 1978
- Number of Pages
- 222 Pages
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No study in the philosophy of science created such controversy in the seventies as Paul Feyerabend's Against Method . In this work, Feyerabend reviews that controversy, and extends his critique beyond the problem of scientific rules and methods, to the social function and direction of science today. In the first part of the book, he launches a sustained and irreverent attack on the prestige of science in the West. The lofty authority of the "expert" claimed by scientists is, he argues, incompatible with any genuine democracy, and often merely serves to conceal entrenched prejudices and divided opinions with the scientific community itself. Feyerabend insists that these can and should be subjected to the arbitration of the lay population, whose closes interests they constantly affect--as struggles over atomic energy programs so powerfully attest. Calling for far greater diversity in the content of education to facilitate democratic decisions over such issues, Feyerabend recounts the origin and development of his own ideas--successively engaged by Brecht, Ehrenhaft, Popper, Mill and Lakatos--in a spirited intellectual self-portrait. Science in a Free Society is a striking intervention into one of the most topical debates in contemporary culture and politics.
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Verso Books
ISBN-10
0860917533
ISBN-13
9780860917533
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117109414
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Book Title
Science in a Free Society
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Philosophy & Social Aspects, Individual Philosophers, Criticism, Research & Methodology
Publication Year
1978
Genre
Science, Philosophy
Number of Pages
222 Pages
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Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
8.6 Oz
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Q175
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"Shrewd ... acute ... robustly anti-parochial ... The issues raised are of the first importance ... Feyerabend's plea for a new catholicity of understanding is often poignant and persuasive."- Nature "An audacious thinker, a brilliant polemicist, an iconoclast ... exhilarating."- Publishers Weekly "A stimulating work of philosophy in the best Socratic tradition."- Time Out
Copyright Date
1982
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Dewey Decimal
501/.8
Dewey Edition
19
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