Ep. 281: Paul Feyerabend's Anarchist Philosophy of Science (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

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🗓️ 8 November 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

On Against Method (1975). In dialogue with Lakatos, Feyerabend claimed that scientific progress can not be explained rationally, so how does it progress? Is F. just arguing against the possibility of any philosophy of science?

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0:00.0	You are listening to the partially examined life podcast by some guys who are one point
0:12.0	set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it.
0:16.0	Our question for episode 281 is again something like how does science make progress and we
0:21.0	read selections from Paul Fairbens against method from 1975.
0:25.8	For more information please visit partialexaminalife.com.
0:29.4	This is Dylan Casey not so much against method but against methods in Madison, Wisconsin.
0:34.8	This is Seth Paschkin empirically irrelevant in Austin, Texas.
0:39.4	This is Wesol on trying to avoid being a rodent of neopositivism in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
0:45.8	That's good.
0:46.8	I have to confess I stole that from Mark.
0:48.9	So Mark's got me as don'ts.
0:50.9	That's pretty good.
0:51.9	That's pretty good.
0:52.9	That's clearly Mark's style.
0:53.9	It is.
0:54.9	Yeah, that's true.
0:55.9	I should.
0:56.9	You should have just noticed.
0:57.9	Is that what's Mark's?
0:58.9	You didn't think of that.
1:01.6	Are you going to be playing the part of Mark on the show?
1:04.8	No, that's fine.
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