Paul Karl Feyerabend Knihy

Tři dialogy o vědění jsou první autorovou knihou přeloženou do češtiny. Jemná ironie v dokonale dramaticky vystavěných dialozích.

Stěžejní dílo rakouského filozofa Paula Feyerabenda vzbudilo senzaci v roce 1975, kdy se po jeho prvním uveřejnění ostře rozdělil tábor příznivců a odpůrců, kteří začali polemizovat v časopisech. Feyerabend byl označován za postmodernistu a radikálního subjektivistu, jehož paradoxní tvrzení a slogany jako „anything goes“ se staly známými. Tradiční pohled na dějiny vědy jako na proces neustálého opravování kritérií poznání Feyerabend zpochybňuje, když upozorňuje, že proces „objevování“ obsahuje mnoho neurčitého a osobního; objev může být výsledkem náhody. Podle něj byly nejvýznamnější objevy učiněny díky porušení pravidel uvažování, když se vědci oprostili od konvencí myšlení. Mnohorozměrnost skutečnosti nelze zahrnout pod jediný přístup nebo metodu. Filozofický výklad je podán poutavě a srozumitelně, zaujme především lidi otevřené novým názorům. I když je Feyerabend považován za jednoho z nejvýznamnějších filozofů 20. století, v češtině vyšla zatím pouze jeho kniha Tři dialogy o vědění. Proto je české vydání jeho nejznámějšího díla významným počinem.

Rakouský filozof a teoretik dějin vědeckého poznání Paul K. Feyerabend ve spisu překonává tradiční představu neslučitelnosti teoretického a estetického diskursu a dějiny vědy chápe jako pluralitu stylů, kterou nacházíme i v dějinách umění. Kritika naivní představy o pokroku ve vědě a jejího autoritativního mocenského nároku se mu stává výchozím bodem mnoha provokativních úvah.... celý text

This collection showcases Feyerabend's philosophical papers, highlighting his influential ideas published from 1960 to 1980. It offers insights into his critical views on scientific methodology and the nature of knowledge, reflecting his unique approach to philosophy of science. The compilation serves as a valuable resource for understanding his impact on contemporary thought and the debates surrounding scientific practices during that era.

Feyerabend's influential approach to the philosophy of science is showcased through a collection of his seminal essays in two volumes. Volume 1 focuses on scientific theory interpretation and its application to specific philosophical and physical problems. In Volume 2, he explores the origins and implications of abstract rationalism on scientific philosophy and research methods. Advocating for a comprehensive pluralism, Feyerabend draws on his extensive knowledge of scientific history, highlighting the broader philosophical and political ramifications of differing perspectives.

Exploring the interplay between realism, rationalism, and scientific method, this collection delves into foundational philosophical issues. The first volume examines the nature of scientific inquiry and its implications for understanding reality. The second volume addresses challenges related to empiricism, focusing on the limitations and scope of sensory experience in knowledge acquisition. Together, these works provide a comprehensive analysis of critical philosophical debates, emphasizing the importance of method in the pursuit of truth.

Philosopher, physicist, and anarchist Paul Feyerabend was one of the most unconventional scholars of his time. His book Against Method has become a modern classic.

From flea bites to galaxies, from love affairs to shadows, Paul Feyerabend reveled in the sensory and intellectual abundance that surrounds us. He found it equally striking that human senses and human intelligence are able to take in only a fraction of these riches. "This a blessing, not a drawback," he writes. "A superconscious organism would not be superwise, it would be paralyzed." This human reduction of experience to a manageable level is the heart of Conquest of Abundance, the book on which Feyerabend was at work when he died in 1994. Prepared from drafts of the manuscript left at his death, working notes, and lectures and articles Feyerabend wrote while the larger work was in progress, Conquest of Abundance offers up rich exploration and startling insights with the charm, lucidity, and sense of mischief that are his hallmarks. Feyerabend is fascinated by how we attempt to explain and predict the mysteries of the natural world, and he looks at the ways in which we abstract experience, explain anomalies, and reduce wonder to formulas and equations. Through his exploration of the positive and negative consequences of these efforts, Feyerabend reveals the "conquest of abundance" as an integral part of the history and character of Western civilization. "Paul Feyerabend . . . was the Norman Mailer of philosophy. . . . brilliant, brave, adventurous, original and quirky."—Richard Rorty, New Republic "As much a smudged icon as a philosophical position holder, [Feyerabend] was alluring and erotic, a torch singer for philosophical anarchy."—Nancy Maull, New York Times Book Review "[A] kind of final testament of Feyerabend's thought . . . Conquest of Abundance is as much the product of a brilliant, scintillating style as of an immense erudition and culture. . . . This book is as abundant and rich as the world it envisions."—Arkady Plotnitsky, Chicago Tribune

Finished only weeks before his death in 1994, this autobiography traces the trajectory that led Feyerabend him from an isolated, lower-middle-class childhood in Vienna to the height of international academic success as one of this century's most influential intellectuals.

Conquest of Abundance was prepared from drafts of the manuscript left at the author's death, working notes, lectures and articles Feyerabend wrote while the larger work was in progress. It offers up exploration and insights with the charm, and sense of mischief that are his hallmarks. schovat popis