Killing Time The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend

Name: Killing Time The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend
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ISBN: 9780226245324

ISBN-10: 0226245322

ISBN-13: 9780226245324

Edition: 1996

Authors: Paul Feyerabend

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Killing Time is the story of Paul Feyerabend's life. Finished only weeks before his death in 1994, it is the self-portrait of one of this century's most original and influential intellectuals.Trained in physics and astronomy, Feyerabend was best known as a philosopher of science. But he emphatically was not a builder of theories or a writer of rules. Rather, his fame was in powerful, plain-spoken critiques of "big" science and "big" philosophy. Feyerabend gave voice to a radically democratic "epistemological anarchism:" he argued forcefully that there is not one way to knowledge, but many principled paths; not one truth or one rationality but different, competing pictures of the workings of…

Book details

List price: $22.50
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/15/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 203
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.85" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English




Family



Growing Up



High School



Occupation and War



Apolda and Weimar



University and Early Travels



Sex, Song, and Electrodynamics



London and After



Bristol



Berkeley, the First Twenty Years



London, Berlin, and New Zealand



Against Method



Brighton, Kassel, and Zurich



Marriage and Retirement



Fading Away Postscript


Index