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Paul Feyerabend is one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century and his book Against Method is an international bestseller. In this new book he masterfully weaves together the main elements of his mature philosophy into a gripping tale: the story of the rise of rationalism in Ancient Greece that eventually led to the entrenchment of a mythical ‘scientific worldview’.
In this wide-ranging and accessible book Feyerabend challenges some modern myths about science, including the myth that ‘science is successful’. He argues that some very basic assumptions about science are simply false and that substantial parts of scientific ideology were created on the basis of superficial generalizations that led to absurd
misconceptions about the nature of human life. Far from solving the pressing problems of our age, such as war and poverty, scientific theorizing glorifies ephemeral generalities, at the cost of confronting
the real particulars that make life meaningful. Objectivity and generality are based on abstraction, and as such, they come at a high price. For abstraction drives a wedge between our thoughts and our
experience, resulting in the degeneration of both. Theoreticians, as opposed to practitioners, tend to impose a tyranny on the concepts they use, abstracting away from the subjective experience that makes
life meaningful. Feyerabend concludes by arguing that practical experience is a better guide to reality than any theory, by itself, ever could be, and he stresses that there is no tyranny that cannot be resisted, even if it is exerted with the best possible intentions.
Provocative and iconoclastic, The Tyranny of Science is one of Feyerabend’s last books and one of his best. It will be widely read by everyone interested in the role that science has played, and continues to play, in the shaping of the modern world.
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- Brand: Brand: Polity
- Published on: 2011-04-25
- Original language: English
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- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .52" w x 5.50" l, .51 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 180 pages
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Review
"The lectures are engaging, educative and entertaining - public lecturing at its best. Feyerabend offers an intriguing, entertaining and very original application of the history and philosophy of science to contemporary social, intellectual and public issues."
British Journal for the History of Science
"Each of the four lectures is excellent and interrelateswith the others. Feyerabend's appealing and evocative entrances to scientific ideological claims permeate, and their lucidity will make identification and extraction of key concepts readily possible for scholars."
The Year's Work in Cultural and Critical Theory
"Offers intrepid scholars much to go on (on the relationship between Wittgenstein and Feyerabend), as well as being an entertaining and vigorous philosophical exercise in itself."
Philosophical Investigations
"In this posthumously published book, the maverick philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend questions the dominance of abstract, theoretical, objectivist science over more human modes of thought."
New Scientist
"Stimulating, thought-provoking, and hugely entertaining."
Morning Star
"Its clear conversational style makes the book a useful introduction to Feyerabend's thought."
Claremont Review of Books
"Both the style of presentation, and the question and answer sessions, will make this book accessible to a popular readership. It will be met with enthusiasm by those with a prior engagement with Feyerabend’s work."
Metascience
"Feyerabend is not attacking science but rather the ideology of science and the metaphysical pronouncements of philosophers and theoreticians. He makes an eloquent and imaginative plea for the importance of the diverse forms of knowledge embodied in the practicalities of everyday life."
David Bloor, University of Edinburgh
"The Tyranny of Science is no work of arid scholarship or technical philosophy. It is the work of a philosophical story-teller who recounts 'fairytales' to situate the ideas he discusses. Feyerabend brings science and philosophy down from the heights of abstract theory to the ground of practice and experience which animates them."
Howard Sankey, University of Melbourne
From the Back Cover
Paul Feyerabend is one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century and his book Against Method is an international bestseller. In this new book he masterfully weaves together the main elements of his mature philosophy into a gripping tale: the story of the rise of rationalism in Ancient Greece that eventually led to the entrenchment of a mythical ‘scientific worldview’.
In this wide-ranging and accessible book Feyerabend challenges some modern myths about science, including the myth that ‘science is successful’. He argues that some very basic assumptions about science are simply false and that substantial parts of scientific ideology were created on the basis of superficial generalizations that led to absurd
misconceptions about the nature of human life. Far from solving the pressing problems of our age, such as war and poverty, scientific theorizing glorifies ephemeral generalities, at the cost of confronting
the real particulars that make life meaningful. Objectivity and generality are based on abstraction, and as such, they come at a high price. For abstraction drives a wedge between our thoughts and our
experience, resulting in the degeneration of both. Theoreticians, as opposed to practitioners, tend to impose a tyranny on the concepts they use, abstracting away from the subjective experience that makes
life meaningful. Feyerabend concludes by arguing that practical experience is a better guide to reality than any theory, by itself, ever could be, and he stresses that there is no tyranny that cannot be resisted, even if it is exerted with the best possible intentions.
Provocative and iconoclastic, The Tyranny of Science is one of Feyerabend’s last books and one of his best. It will be widely read by everyone interested in the role that science has played, and continues to play, in the shaping of the modern world.
About the Author
Paul Feyerabend was one of the twentieth century's leading philosophers of science. His most well-known books are Against Method and Science in a Free Society.
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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful.
A Little Bit of Feyerabend
By Doctor Moss
Although I'm giving this book a high rating, this is not the best representation of Feyerabend's thought. The text is taken from a series of lectures he gave in 1992, in Italy, to a public audience, with a question and answer section at the end of each lecture. Although Feyerabend never, on principle, constructed and delivered arguments in the standard style and technical precision of academic philosophy, these lectures lack the sustained development and argumentation that you see in, for example, Against Method.
The positions Feyerabend takes in this book are familiar ones -- he argues that there are many legitimate ways of acquiring knowledge about the world, with "scientific method" providing only one, limited way (often with its practitioners holding gross misconceptions of their own methods). He argues against both scientific reductionism and, within science itself, slavish adherence to "method."
Feyerabend was a historian as well as a philosopher of science, and he could call upon a detailed knowledge of how science actually happens in order to develop his arguments and convince his readers. Much of that detail is missing in this book -- we get much more of what Feyerabend thinks than we get of why he thinks it. Hopefully, readers who are intrigued by what he does say here will be motivated to read his other work, especially Against Method, to find out why he thinks what he thinks.
All of that said, I think that one story that Feyerabend tells more effectively in this book than in others is the continuity between the scientific worldview and the attacks on experiential knowledge in the pre-Socratics. He deftly ties Parmenides' argument denying the reality of change, despite appearances, to the scientist's dismissal of all the messy details that get in the way of observing and describing the real phenomena behind appearances -- the abstractions necessary to give us a view of only the details that count to the scientific mind. As he says (p. 40), "We have to conclude that science did not start from experience; it started by arguing against experience and it survived by regarding experience as a chimera."
For anyone who finds this book interesting and enjoyable, I'd also recommend that they read more from Feyerabend to get a fuller picture of his thought -- Against Method, for sure, and possibly Science in a Free Society or the much later Conquest of Abundance as well.
16 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
When perplexed - go Greek !
By Sceptique500
I'm not sure what to make of this book. It contains four themes "condensed" from a set of lectures the author gave in 1992, and have now been published in 2011. They were recorded, and the author edited them at the time - but not the point of betraying his straying thoughts. They intermittently retain the oral feel, which makes for lively reading. As often happens in a lecture hall, however, where one speaks without notes, a clear structure is lacking. In an oral setting, this is OK: charisma and rhetorical brilliance (and the author is brilliant) paper over the thin structure. On paper, the text reads confused, however, with lots of leads leading nowhere.
Indeed, it seems as the author, lost in his thoughts, had tried to find his way forward by "going Greek" - spending a lot of time on what the old Greek philosophers meant on this or that. Thus half the first lecture - and even larger parts of the remaining ones - is devoted to a review of some aspects of Greek philosophy and derivative schools. On page 112 he is asked by one of the participants why he is telling the story of Greek philosophy - to which he replies: "My aim was to tell a story that would not be too boring and enlightening to some extent." I'm not sure that he has succeeded on either count, and that this cameo treatment of the history of epistemology, once set in print, does justice to the subject. There are far more thorough treatments of Greek philosophy on the shelves.
The first chapter: "Conflict and harmony" deals with the question whether the material world is structured harmoniously or not. This would be a terrific subject. Some see "intelligent design" throughout, others "chaos" or maybe "lack of purpose" (and I'd add a position in between: there may be local systems, some spiced with complexity, haphazardly connected). The author choses to tackle the subject from a hermeneutic point of view: "What I am interested in is how, under what circumstances and in what personal ways, people acquired a liking for certain patterns. Why, for example, do so many people believe in a reality that not only remains unmoved by their actions but controls every detail of their behavior?" (pg. 13). Note the term: "many people" - we should be talking here of what Richard E. Nisbett calls "folk metaphysics" or "silent culture". The interaction between ecology, geography, and social systems would be indeed an interesting take on how certain scientific worldviews of ancient people emerged. Alas, having posited the question, the author ends up discussing a few Greek philosophers - mainly Thales, Xenopahnes, and a bit of Plato - elite all, with reflections on the Greek theatre thrown in at the end.
Jumping now to the third chapter: "The abundance of nature" tackles a very important issue. Knowhow is embedded in people. If we want to make it "portable" we need to transform it into "knowledge" - discover "underlying principles" that can be applied independently of the "knowhow bearer". The price of such an extractive process of abstraction is loss of information - particularly of the material context in which the knowhow was gathered- and of the skill in dealing with the latter. In engineering or astronomy this may not matter too much. In the social sciences this process might be deadly (as a rule of thumb, if a social system has a history, abstraction is not the way to go. My pet "hate" is the economists who took history out of economics and pretended - on the basis of a short time series - that they could successfully condense a living economy into a "rational expectations" model.) How much abstraction one would allow is a matter for topical accommodation, not principle discussion. Again, after having posited the subject in the first few pages, the author spends the rest of the time on Pythagoras, and the discovery of irrational numbers.
Chapter four bears the title: Dehumanizing Humans. It begins with the assertion that a "chasm [has grown] between nature and feelings". He continues on pg. 95: "Because experience and experiment have been successful. Successful at what? Successful at bringing peace, or at making people more loving? Not a chance!" I'm puzzled by this outburst. If the author argues that science has wrong priorities, I'll second the motion. If he thinks we should change method so as to create biological research that gets "scientific" results but also (collaterally?) makes "people more loving" as well, I must ask how he intends to achieve this. "Will to result" has even less of a track record than "will to power". To my knowledge ethically-driven and greed-driven research do not differ in method - just in results (and the benefits accruing to the power structure). After this outburst the author gets lost in Plato's Euthydemus. His thoughts surface briefly to advise us that practice better not be separated from theory - I'd fully agree on pragmatic grounds: too many avoidable errors derive from lack of skills in handling "context" (but this applies just as much to philosophy as it does to engineering, or science: we elide the material context at our peril). The end of the lecture is on the small problems Galileo had with the Inquisition.
A word on the title: I've found nothing in the book to justify such an insult to "science" - whatever "science" maybe. It may be the publisher trying to trade on the author's reputation after his death. As I said in the beginning: I'm not sure what to make of these lectures, which have been published 20 years after being given.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
The place to begin when approaching Feyerabend
By Dr. Milo Jones
In my view, this is the volume to start with when approaching Feyerabend for the first time. It is far more accessible than Against Method, and offers the reader a taste of both his ideas and his approach to problems. It's also just plain fun to read, and intellectually bracing even when one disagrees: heartily recommended for anyone interested in the history of ideas!
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