Disciplines
Epistemology | Philosophy | Philosophy of Science
Abstract
This essay seeks to make the case for reading hermeneutic philosophy of science with Feyerabend. In addition, there is the question of science, as Nietzsche raises this question along with Feyerabend’s programmatic recommendations for traditional philosophy of science. Including a discussion of method in history as in theology and philology, including Nietzsche’s hermeneutics, this essay reviews Feyerabend’s exchanges with Lakatos along with the resistance of mainstream philosophy of science to hermeneutics as such. A discussion of Feyerabend’s ‘gods’ engages what he invokes as ontological abundance as well as his criticism of the limitations of Popper’s critique of Parmenides requiring both historical/historiographical context, an understanding of science in practice, via a contextualization of Schrödinger, and via Plato’s epistemology along with Duhem on experiment and Riegl on style, crucial for Feyerabend on the notion of ‘progress,’ key for Lakatos and others, in art and science.
Recommended Citation
Babich, Babette, "READING FEYERABEND BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, HERMENEUTICS – AND GOD" (2024). Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections. 106.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/phil_babich/106
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Epistemology & Philosophy of Science 2024