反对方法

简介

Against Method appeared in 1975 with the subtitle “Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge”. It was meant as one half of a joint book with Imre Lakatos, who was to defend scientific rationality; Lakatos died in 1974 and his part was never written. The core of the book is a case study of Galileo, intended to show that science advanced by breaking methodological rules – through rhetoric and ad hoc moves as well as observation and argument. “Anything goes” is offered less as a method than as the only rule that survives such a history. Critics charged Feyerabend with relativism and irrationalism; he revised the book in 1988 and 1993.

联系

承接了

• 论自由1859 · 约翰·斯图尔特·密尔
• 科学革命的结构1962 · 托马斯·S. 库恩

批评了

• 科学发现的逻辑1934 · 卡尔·波普尔