Review of Firebrand’s Methodological Anarchism in Theory against Method: Designing the Anarchist Theory of Knowledge
The dominance of positivism over the philosophy of science in the first years of the twentieth century, due to its wave of criticism by some philosophers of science in the second half of this century, was in crisis and collapse. The views of scientific philosophers such as Popper, Cohen, and Lakatos...
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| description | The dominance of positivism over the philosophy of science in the first years of the twentieth century, due to its wave of criticism by some philosophers of science in the second half of this century, was in crisis and collapse. The views of scientific philosophers such as Popper, Cohen, and Lakatos provided the basis for the emergence of more radical critiques of the classical stream of the philosophy of science. In the same vein, Feyerabend tried to replace the previous approaches with a kind of methodological anarchism in his book, Against Method: The Anarchist Theory of Knowledge. According to her, there is no reasonable way to obtain and reject theories. In this book, she shows that trying to find rules for the logical reconstruction of the process of advancing science and proving and refuting theories is futile. In this research, while reviewing the mentioned book, an attempt has been made to evaluate some of the main views of the author in terms of form and content. The purpose of this work is to show the validity of the author’s radical claims in the philosophy of science and to assess its strengths and weaknesses. The method used in the critique of this descriptive-analytical work shows that Firand’s views, while in the field of philosophy of science as a new critical approach to the importance and privileged position, have unresolved conflicts to which they write. It has been overlooked, and it seems that those who follow his views in the philosophy of science should make more theoretical efforts to solve it. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d1d37372f2384188afc668e5f49e0c722025-01-08T05:47:43ZfasInstitute for Humanities and Cultural Studies (IHCS)پژوهشنامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامههای علوم انسانی2383-16502020-07-0120537139510.30465/crtls.2020.18056.12895390Review of Firebrand’s Methodological Anarchism in Theory against Method: Designing the Anarchist Theory of KnowledgeMohammad Nejadiran0Rozhan Hesam Ghazi1Visiting Scholar in Islamic Azad University and Payame Noor UniversityAssistant Professor of Political Science, Islamic Azad University, Robat Karim Branch, Iran,The dominance of positivism over the philosophy of science in the first years of the twentieth century, due to its wave of criticism by some philosophers of science in the second half of this century, was in crisis and collapse. The views of scientific philosophers such as Popper, Cohen, and Lakatos provided the basis for the emergence of more radical critiques of the classical stream of the philosophy of science. In the same vein, Feyerabend tried to replace the previous approaches with a kind of methodological anarchism in his book, Against Method: The Anarchist Theory of Knowledge. According to her, there is no reasonable way to obtain and reject theories. In this book, she shows that trying to find rules for the logical reconstruction of the process of advancing science and proving and refuting theories is futile. In this research, while reviewing the mentioned book, an attempt has been made to evaluate some of the main views of the author in terms of form and content. The purpose of this work is to show the validity of the author’s radical claims in the philosophy of science and to assess its strengths and weaknesses. The method used in the critique of this descriptive-analytical work shows that Firand’s views, while in the field of philosophy of science as a new critical approach to the importance and privileged position, have unresolved conflicts to which they write. It has been overlooked, and it seems that those who follow his views in the philosophy of science should make more theoretical efforts to solve it.https://criticalstudy.ihcs.ac.ir/article_5390_7d95d7ae2cbefb735d8ffa6ac69bbd09.pdfmethodologyanarchismrelativismhistory of sciencephilosophy of sciencefeyerabendagainst method |
| spellingShingle | Mohammad Nejadiran Rozhan Hesam Ghazi Review of Firebrand’s Methodological Anarchism in Theory against Method: Designing the Anarchist Theory of Knowledge پژوهشنامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامههای علوم انسانی methodology anarchism relativism history of science philosophy of science feyerabend against method |
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