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Testing Theories- Paul Feyerabend (Jan 13, 1924 - Feb 11, 1994)
Paul Feyerabend was a man who tested theories and criticized other philosophers work. The fundamental importance that protocol statements play in logical positivist models of evaluating ideas against experience was proven by Feyerabend. In proving this, Feyerabend distinguished between an observation language's characteristics and its interpretation. The characteristic stipulates the relationship between the behavior of human beings and a set of physical situations. For example a piece of litmus -
Expalnation, Reduction, and Empiricism - Paul Feyerabend (Jan 13, 1924 - Feb 11, 19994)
This paper was written by Feyerabend to show that explanation and reduction were impossible for general theories. It criticized existing accounts of explanation and reduction and introduced the concept of incommensurability which was based on contextual theory of meaning. Timetoast -
Against Method - Paul Feyerabend (Jan 13, 1924 - Feb 11, 1994
Feyerabend's book Against Method first started as just an article attacking prominent accounts of scientific methodology. In his book he depicted the importance of older scientific having powerful empirical and argumentative support and stressed that the heroes of scientific revolution were not as scrupulous as they were represented to be. It also drew the conclusion that there were no useful and unimportant methodological rules governing the progress of science or the growth of knowledge. -
Nominalism - Paul Feyerabend (Jan 13, 1924 - Feb 11, 1994)
For many years Feyerabend was anti-Wittigenstein but later adopted nominalism from Ludwig Wittigenstein and made it his own. Nominalism, how we experience the world is partly the result of the concepts we use to have our experiences. Paul Feyerabend' s nominalism was a form of anti-realism about natural kinds. He was more concerned about concepts and their relation to nature. According to Feyerabend's example we can conceive of the world consisting of Gods or atoms. The set of concepts we bring
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