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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Feyerabend"”.
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Pluralism and the 'Problem of Reality' in the Later Philosophy of Paul Feyerabend
Feyerabend’s later philosophy was a sustained defence of cultural and epistemic diversity. After Against Method (1975) Feyerabend argued that his rejection of methodological monism challenged the presumed unity and superiority of scientific knowledge and practices. His later philosophy was …
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Precept and practice in science an examination of some objections to theories of scientific method
… from three quarters. Firstly, there is Paul Feyerabend, according to whom the historical development of science reveals that no set of general normative rules and standards can be given for science. Most of the rules and standards hitherto proposed, he contends, have been violated by …
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A theory of existential psychology
… for the study of naturally-occurring phenomena (Feyerabend, 1965; Katsoff, 1953; Turner, 1967). Such a framework serves the dual function of indicating, in a paradigmatic fashion (Kuhn, 1962, 1970), the direction research should take and provides an underlying epistemology and methodology …
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The Curriculum of Capitalism: Schooled to Profit or Schooled to Educate
… of Du Bois, Dewey, Lessing, Marcuse, and Feyerabend as the primary method for investigation.
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Escola Parque: paradigma escolar (1947/1951)
… histórico de produção da ciência, de acordo com Feyerabend. Apresentamos na primeira parte os determinantes que conduziram a gênese e formação da escola, traçando a matriz social e o componente educacional na qual ela emerge. Em seguida, apresentamos as categorias que apoiam os pronunciamentos e …
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De la cientificidad del marxismo. El materialismo histórico como una tradición de investigación progresiva y crítica en las ciencias sociales
… y relativistas pasando por las de Neurath, Kuhn, Feyerabend y sobre todo las de Popper y Lakatos. Esta crítica de las anteriores posiciones llevó al autor a considerar la filosofía de Larry Laudan y sus tradiciones de invetigación como la mejor filosofía de la ciencia para dar cuenta de la …
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Feyerabend's Monster and the Critique of Scientism
… the social-democratic tendency within Paul Feyerabend’s political thought to lay the groundwork for a critical social theory of scientism. Across his political writings, Feyerabend develops a critical diagnosis of late modernity vis-à-vis pervasive misrepresentations of science and the …
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Towards a Cinema of Imperfection: Participatory Film as Research
… and examining methods ‘against methods’ (Feyerabend 1988) in order to acknowledge the uncertainty and fluidity of participatory work. This forms my understanding of what I term imperfect praxis. This praxis requires the emancipatory potential of imperfection to be easily communicable and …
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Scientific change and the meanings of terms : an examination of P.K. Feyerabend's incommensurability theses
Feyerabend's incommensurability thesis concerning scientific change engenders a number of logical problems. While it is possible to examine Feyerabend's theory in relation to his historical arguments, the defects implicit in his arguments for the theory render more appropriate an analytical …
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A natureza teleológica do princípio darwiniano de seleção natural : a articulação do metafísico e do epistemológico na origem das espécies
… das análises feitas por Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend e Imre Lakatos, entre outros, e, sobretudo, seu reconhecimento do papel do núcleo metafísico presente no questionamento científico; (2) a busca de uma compreensão contextualizadora da estrutura lógico-conceitual em que se insere a função …