Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 13:02:16 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: PKF: Feyerabend


Hello Russell,

Just a few words about your project.  I think David Geelan is quite
correct -- you really ought to reconsider the way your question has been
posed.  Feyerabend wasn't advocating epistemological anarchism, nor did he
ever defend a position, as you contend, that 'anything goes'. As David
points out, a good source for criticisms and responses is Feyerabend's
'Conversations with Illiterates'.  Also, I would recommend taking a look
at the Munevar collection 'Beyond Reason'. There are a number of
interesting papers quite critical of Feyerabend, and a concluding dialogue
(I think it is called 'Concluding Unphilosophical Conversation' or the
like) which Feyerabend wrote in response.

I hope this helps,
Scott Cassells.


On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Russell Sears wrote:

> 
> 
> Drieu,
> 
> Much appreciated, that was a very useful comment. That is the way my 
> thinking on the essay had been going.
> 
> I guess that the shape it is taking is to show that PKF's position of 
> anything goes is open to interpretation as being anarchistic or not. It 
> is however relativistic and this in the realms of science as well as 
> politics is self-defeating.
> 
> to raise the question up a level I will then find comment on 
> feyerabend's response to this being something along the lines of - who 
> cares, as you say. He would I feel claim that this doesn't matter as 
> long as there is the established way of doing things is shaken up. 
> Possibility of fluctuating from facism to anarchism and back and forth.
> 
> I fear I'm going off track though.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Any references?
> 
> Cheers dude - We all travel together
> 
> Siv Russell Sears
> 
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