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Against Method, Against Science?: On Logic, Order, and Analogy in the Sciences
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Author(s): Raymond Aaron Younis (University of Notre Dame – Sydney, Australia)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 13
Source title:
Philosophical Perceptions on Logic and Order
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Jeremy Horne (International Institute of Informatics and Systemics, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2443-4.ch010
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Abstract
This chapter will focus on two questions, first, the question of Feyerabend's use of analogy, in Against Method, in order to give an account of science, scientific research, and/or scientific institutions in terms of fairy tales; second, it will focus on the question of whether the analogy holds up to critical scrutiny. Feyerabend uses “fairy tale” in a number of senses in Against Method; for example, he uses it to capture some misleading indeed erroneous views about methodology; he insists that the truth is at odds with the fairy tale and that the truth is that “all methodologies have their limits” (1980, p. 32); he takes it to mean not just an erroneous narrative but an erroneous or at the very least, questionable, narrative, which is promoted as true; he uses it in at least three other senses in the book. This chapter will then offer a detailed critique of the use of such analogies in Against Method in order to clarify the strengths and weaknesses of Feyerabend's argument.
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