From: "Rafe Champion" <rchamp-AT-bigpond.net.au>
Subject: Re: PKF: What's new on this list?
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 18:53:37 +1100


> In your introductory message, Rafe, you referred to Feyerabend as a
> 'Popperian gadfly'. I wondered whether by this you meant a gadfly who is
> a Popperian (as far as I know, PKF was at a very early stage but later
> apostasised from the church of Sir Karl), or a gadfly stinging Popper?
> I'd be interested to hear what you meant, and how you see the
> relationship of the two bodies of work/ideas.
>
Good questions to kick along a discussion. I tend to be a fairly orthodox
Popperian and I like to think of PFK as about 95% orthodox Popper/critical
rationalism with some dadaism thrown in for the hell of it, plus 0.00005%
rather nasty personal criticism of his old master.

Hence he was a gadfly in both senses, a proper Popperian gadfly and also a
stinger of Popper.

Rafe


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