Three Dialogues on Knowledge - Hardcover

Feyerabend, Paul K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631179178 ISBN 13: 9780631179177

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 1991

Synopsis

This book uses the dialogue form to analyze epistemological, ethical and metaphysical problems. It employs such literary devices as irony to further the philosophical arguments. Among the specific topics covered in this volume are: ancient and modern relativism; the authority of science; the ignorance of scientists; the nature of being; and true and false enlightenment.

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"An audacious thinker, a brilliant polemicist, an iconoclast ..." Publishers′ Weekly

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The Socratic, or dialog, form is central to the history of philosophy and has been the discipline′s canonical genre ever since. Paul Feyerabend′s Three Dialogues on Knowledge resurrects the form to provide an astonishingly flexible and invigorating analysis of epistemological, ethical and metaphysical problems. He uses literary strategies – of irony, voice and distance – to make profoundly philosophical points about the epistemic, existential and political aspects of common sense and scientific knowledge. He writes about ancient and modern relativism; the authority of science; the ignorance of scientists; the nature of being; and true and false enlightenment.

Throughout Three Dialogues on Knowledge is provocative, controversial and inspiring. It is, unlike most current philosophical writing, written for readers with a keen sense of what matters and why.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0631179178
• ISBN 13: 9780631179177
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 204