Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:34:47 -0600
From: Noutiza Nirvana Geuvdjelian Herrera <nirvana.quark-AT-gmail.com>
To: feyerabend forum <feyerabend-AT-driftline.org>
Subject: [PKF] On Epistemological Anachism and my view...


Hello! My name is Nirvana and I studied philosophy of Science in
Mexico. I am now working on my postgrad studies in philosophy of
physics.  I came across Feyerabend for the first time in highschool,
my philosophy teacher -and good friend- thought that I would enjoy
very much his way of approaching the philosophy of science, he thought
that I shared the approach because I would complain that Carnap,
Popper and others were very narrow minded and stif handed in their
writting. Interesting nevertheless, but cold and narrow.
So the first book I read was the dialogues of A and B, one of his last
writtings (originally published in italian), the title in english is
something like "Dialogues about Method". Then of course, "Against
Method" came into my life and many others.... Plus the letters of
Feyerabend with Lakatos are one of my favorite ones!

Ok, So my main subject at the moment (and was also of my BA thesis,
because in mexico one has to do a thesis for the BA) was quantum
mechanics (QM) and causation... I looked for Feyerabend's paper on
Bohr's interpretation of QM, however, in a poor country like mine,
well, the libraries are not what they should be... so I never had the
chance to read the paper. If anyone here has it, please please please
do let me have a copy... PLEASE.

I consider that Feyerabend's ideas on scientific method and realism
are the crutial point behind the disscision of Nancy Cartwright, Bas
van Fraassen and Ian Hacking. Even though, because of the Radicalness
and crazyness that Feyerabend enjoyed displaying, well these
philosophers (except Hacking) do not say so explicitly. Shame!

I would be very interested in talking about the points in common and
the discrepancies between Feyerabend and Hanson, especially on the
issue of how perception changes with theoretical bagagge... so please,
anyone interested, here I am for a nice and interesting disscusion.
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