Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 21:22:41 +0200
From: Jean-Luc Gautero <jgautero-AT-naxos.unice.fr>
Subject: Re: PKF: PKF - realism?


Eero Sarkinen asked:

>In "Against Method",  third edition, chapter 20, the autobiographical
>sketch, Feyerabend speaks of his conversion to realism: "I saw now how
>closely realism was connected with facts, procedures, principles I valued,
>and it had helped bring them about (...)
>realism had fruits, positivism had none." Does he elaborate on the realist
>position anywhere else?

I don't know where I have put his "Philosophical Papers", volume 1,
Cambridge University Press, 1981 (I bought it three or four years ago), so
I can't be precise as regards its content, but its subtitle is "Realism,
rationalism and scientific method", and I remember that here Feyerabend
argues for "realism", though when I have read it I found strange and hard
to understand the idea of a "pluralistic realism" (I have now an idea of
what this could mean, but I don't know, and cannot check because I don't
find the book, if my idea is near the idea of Feyerabend).

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