From: "Rafe Champion" <rchamp-AT-bigpond.net.au>
Subject: Re: PKF: On Liking Popper AND Feyerabend ...
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 18:01:28 +1100


>   Growing and becoming more influential?!  It's been my strong impression,
> buttressed by occasional debates on HOPOS, that _both_ have long since
> been supplanted by Kuhn.
>
> Dale Huckeby

It depends on the company you keep!  I think you will find that Kuhn is a
bubble, floating on the wind of the sociology of science, with literally
nothing to contribute to the critical discussion of the pros and cons of
rival theories.

Actually he has formed  kind of symbiotic relationship with the inductivist,
pre-Popperian philosophy of science. Inductivism breeds uncritical or
"normal" scientists whose activities are described by Kuhn, why thereby
repays his debt to inductivism by legitimating whatever it is that they do.

The critical approach of Popper and Feyerabend demolishes both, though I
would like an explanation of what it is that Feyerabend has contributed that
has superseded Popper. I tend to think of F as a rather unorthodox
Popperian.

Rafe
http://zap.to/rafechampion


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