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Philosophy of Nature, written by Paul Feyerabend

Philosophy of Nature, written by Paul Feyerabend Philosophy of Nature (Cambridge, Polity, 2016), 288 pp., isbn 978-0-7456-5159-0, € 34.18Since Paul Feyerabend died in 1994, a steady stream of new ‘Feyerabendiana’ has appeared. His autobiography, Killing Time, appeared in 1996, followed by Conquest of Abundance in 1999 and The Tyranny of Science in 2011. The third and fourth volumes of his philosophical papers also appeared in 1999 and 2016, covering epistemology and relativism, and philosophy of physics, respectively. At the same time, a vigorous new body of scholarship has appeared, reassessing the ideas of this much-misunderstood ‘epistemological anarchist’. Once we remove the polemical fireworks, much of what Feyerabend said turns out to be more sensible than one might imagine – or at least so Feyerabend scholars argue.This latest piece of Feyerabendiana, Philosophy of Nature, originally appeared in German in 2009 under the title Naturphilosophie, edited by Eric Oberheim and Helmut Heit, respected scholars of Feyerabend’s works. The book had an interesting genesis. While writing Against Method in the early 1970s, Feyerabend was also simultaneously writing a multi-volume history of human conceptions of nature in the Western tradition. The scope was ambitious, starting with the Stone Age and moving, chronologically if not wholly systematically, through the Homeric and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the Philosophy of History Brill

Philosophy of Nature, written by Paul Feyerabend

Kidd, Ian James
Journal of the Philosophy of History , Volume 13 (2): 5 – Jun 21, 2019
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Philosophy of Nature (Cambridge, Polity, 2016), 288 pp., isbn 978-0-7456-5159-0, € 34.18Since Paul Feyerabend died in 1994, a steady stream of new ‘Feyerabendiana’ has appeared. His autobiography, Killing Time, appeared in 1996, followed by Conquest of Abundance in 1999 and The Tyranny of Science in 2011. The third and fourth volumes of his philosophical papers also appeared in 1999 and 2016, covering epistemology and relativism, and philosophy of physics, respectively. At the same time, a vigorous new body of scholarship has appeared, reassessing the ideas of this much-misunderstood ‘epistemological anarchist’. Once we remove the polemical fireworks, much of what Feyerabend said turns out to be more sensible than one might imagine – or at least so Feyerabend scholars argue.This latest piece of Feyerabendiana, Philosophy of Nature, originally appeared in German in 2009 under the title Naturphilosophie, edited by Eric Oberheim and Helmut Heit, respected scholars of Feyerabend’s works. The book had an interesting genesis. While writing Against Method in the early 1970s, Feyerabend was also simultaneously writing a multi-volume history of human conceptions of nature in the Western tradition. The scope was ambitious, starting with the Stone Age and moving, chronologically if not wholly systematically, through the Homeric and

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Published: Jun 21, 2019

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