File feyerabend/feyerabend.0509, message 5


Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:18:50 -0700
From: "D. Knotts" <knotthead-AT-happybug.com>
To: feyerabend-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: Re: [PKF] =?windows-1252?Q?Mun=E9var_Interview?=


Hi Paul and group,


Thanks for putting up the articles. Yes, this group may be quite quiet 
but your postings are nonetheless much appreciated!

I'm trying to build some foundation for "Theory of Knowledge". Does 
anyone have any recommendations? I found one that looks good on the 
first few pages (using Amazon.com), Truth by Jose Medina. It hardly 
sells, # 292,249,219 on the book hit parade (just kidding). Strangely, 
my last class in TOK was from PF at UC/Berkeley way back when.

Back to work...


- Mike in CA, USA




Paul Newall wrote:

>Dear all,
>
>I recently had a chance to interview Gonzalo Munévar for an educational site 
>I run. Munévar was a student of Feyerabend's and I asked him about his 
>teacher's work and influence, to which he responded at length. I thought you 
>might be interested in this fascinating discussion, which can be found here:
>
>http://www.galilean-library.org/munevar.html
>
>Here is an excerpt:
>
>"Some people never forgave his exposing their weak arguments for what they 
>were. And the fact that he did it with a great sense of humor made them feel 
>also ridiculed – they took it personally. I know that his mode of criticism 
>contributed to the hostile reception he received in some quarters. He once 
>showed me a letter from a famous philosopher whose book he had just 
>criticized in print. The letter was one *ad
>hominem*<http://www.galilean-library.org/int16.html#ad_hominem>insult
>after another. It also contained an announcement to the effect that
>Feyerabend was now in the writer's "enemies' list." On the other hand, he 
>liked to bring down people he thought were pompous. Some friends of his told 
>me that he had gone too far a few times. I wasn't there those times. When I 
>was there, I really relished his manner. He openly made fun of me often. But 
>I made fun of him just as often."
>
>This list has been slow since I joined it but I hope the interview will be 
>beneficial. I put up a forum at the site (
>http://www.galilean-library.org/academy/index.php ) if anyone prefers a 
>discussion board approach. It might revitalise participation here, I guess. 
>I also managed to find Feyerabend's "How to defend society against science" 
>and put it up, too (http://www.galilean-library.org/feyerabend1.html ), and 
>if anyone knows of other papers I could add (without violating copyright 
>laws - hopefully I haven't already) then I'd appreciate the information. My 
>eventual aim is to create a resource for Feyerabend's work and ideas, as 
>well as those associated with him in one way or another (for example, 
>Lakatos' lectures on scientific method at 
>http://www.galilean-library.org/lakatos.html ...).
>  
>

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