目录目录................I译者序...................iv第二版序言...........................v导论.................101 相对主义札记..................11. 实用相对主义(机会主义).......................12 政治影响...............123 希罗多德与普罗泰戈拉....................144 普罗泰戈拉学说中的真理与现实............185 民主相对主义...........................226 真理与实在:历史视角下的探讨............267 认知相对主义.............328 若干批评意见的检视...........349 回归生活...........3802 理性、色诺芬尼与荷马诸神..........4303 知识与理论的作用.......................521 存在............522 知识..........................533 知识形态..................564 哲学与“理性主义的兴起”......................585 论理论的解释...................6104 创造力.............651 作为模仿的艺术与科学.....................652 作为创造性事业的艺术与科学...............663 爱因斯坦创造力理论之辩.............674 个体创造力理念背后的人性观........................715 回归整体...................7205 哲学、科学与艺术的演进之道...........741 双重进路:论发展的两种范式...........................742 两种进步观的根本分野..............763 艺术领域的演进轨迹...................774 哲学省思.................805 科学实践的实然图景......................80对本文讨论的回应说明.....................8206 知识之琐屑化:对波普尔哲学涉猎的评述................851. 批判理性主义......................852 证伪与实在论....................893 量子理论.......................954 历史性结论.................9907 马赫的科学研究方法论及其与爱因斯坦的关系.............104导论..................1041 马赫论研究中的原理运用...........1042 爱因斯坦对原理的运用.....................1053 对马赫若干批评的驳斥...........................1064 马赫论归纳法、感觉与科学进步..............1085 爱因斯坦的非理性实证主义与马赫的辩证理性主义.......................1116 原子论与相对论......................1167 值得汲取的学术启示..................1191988年后记补注............11908 关于亚里士多德数学理论与连续统学说的若干考察.......................12009 伽利略与真理的暴政.............138附录...............14710 普特南论不可通约性....................14811 文化多元还是美丽新单调?..........15312 告别理性........................1571 概览...........................1572 科学的结构............1573 案例研究.............1604 科学乃众多传统之一...........1675 理性与实践..................1716 自由社会的六大要素.................1737 善与恶...........................1748 告別理性..........................177

Paul Karl Feyerabend

Feyerabend, Paul

Verso Editions

New Left Books

Verso Books

Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 1), London, 1999

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

London, New York, England, 1987

Illustrated edition, PS, 1988

1. publ, London u.a, 1987

Reprinted, London, 1994

Collection of essays rewritten for publication in book form. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Collection of essays rewritten for publication in book form.

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.For all their variety in theme and occasion, the essays in this book share a consistent philosophical purpose. Whether discussing Greek art and thought, vindicating the church's battle with Galileo, exploring the development of quantum physics or exposing the dogmatism of Karl Popper, Feyerabend defends a relativist and historicist notion of the sciences. The appeal to reason, he insists, is empty, and must be replaced by a notion of science that subordinates it to the needs of citizens and communities.Provocative, polemical and rigorously argued, Farewell to Reason will infuriate Feyerabend's critics and delight his many admirers.

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.
For all their variety in theme and occasion, the essays in this book share a consistent philosophical purpose. Whether discussing Greek art and thought, vindicating the churchs battle with Galileo, exploring the development of quantum physics or exposing the dogmatism of Karl Popper, Feyerabend defends a relativist and historicist notion of the sciences. The appeal to reason, he insists, is empty, and must be replaced by a notion of science that subordinates it to the needs of citizens and communities.
Provocative, polemical and rigorously argued, Farewell to Reason will infuriate Feyerabends critics and delight his many admirers.

<p><i>Farewell to Reason</i> 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. <p>For all their variety of theme and occasion, the essays in this book share a consistent philosophical purpose. Whether discussing Greek art and thought, vindicating the Church's battle with Galileo, exploring the development of quantum physics or exposing the dogmatism of Karl Popper, Feyerabend defends a relativist and historicist notion of the sciences. The appeal to reason, he insists, is empty, and must be replaced by a notion of science that subordinates it to the needs of citizens and communities.</p>

**Farewell to Reason** is a 1987 book of essays by philosopher Paul Feyerabend against the use of scientific rationalism.

Essays discuss relativism, knowledge, creativity, progress, Aristotle, Galileo, cultural pluralism, and reason

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