Book Review: "The Tyranny of Science "

Authors

Brian Martin, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

73444

Publication Details

Martin, B. (2012). Book Review: "The Tyranny of Science ". International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 26 (1), 118-121.

Abstract

Paul Feyerabend (1924–1994) occupies a distinctive position in the philosophy of science and in the wider politics of science. Building on a series of long essays, his 1975 book Against Method challenged the conventional idea that a universal scientific method was the way scientists did, or should, carry out their work. That book’s subtitle, Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge, suggested an epistemology with political implications.