On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 2:07 AM, Alain Sepeda <[email protected]> wrote:
This is what Kuhn call incommensurability of paradigm, what feyerabend > explains to justify "scientific anarchism". > You might be right about the applicability of Kuhn's idea of incommensurability of paradigm here. I think Feyerabend's point, which has been called "anarchism," was a little different. I believe he was responding to Popper and others who wanted to give a clear, pat description of/prescription for the scientific method. Feyerabend was saying that things are not so clear-cut. You have scientists discovering amazing things, and often they don't follow hard-and-fast rules about what science is supposed to be about. What is science, then? It's whatever good scientists do. This is Feyerabend's "scientific anarchism." Eric
