Diatribes on Scientific Rationality
Keys to a speculative understanding of debt and intellectual distance of Feyerabend about Popper
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https://doi.org/10.18270/rcfc.v16i33.1933Keywords:
Feyerabend, Popper, Science, Demarcation Criterion, MetaphysicsAbstract
The discussions that Paul Feyerabend held with Popper, allowed him to discover the flaws and limitations of an univocal notion of scientific rationality. Feyerabend realized how those mythical or metaphysical elements –that Popper recognized as pre-scientific– constitute, paradoxically, the heart of the scientific work. This criticism to Popper allowed him understands, imperfectly, what is not science and, therefore, the need to undertake a new vision or theory of science. Then, these discussions with Popper show him the way or the direction in which he should think his positive understanding of science. His understanding of the science is nothing but an attempt to refute dialectically the Popper ´s project to define science as opposed to metaphysics. Our purpose is to analyze the intellectual debt and subsequent detachment of Feyerabend regarding Popper, from his progressive understanding of scientific rationality.
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