Science in a Free Society

by Paul Karl Feyerabend

Book Overview

No study in the philosophy of science created such controversy in the seventies as Paul Feyerabend's Against Method . In this work, Feyerabend reviews that controversy, and extends his critique beyond the problem of scientific rules and methods, to the social function and direction of science today. In the first part of the book, he launches a sustained and irreverent attack on the prestige of science in the West. The lofty authority of the "expert"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B001UQMMX6
• ISBN13: 9780860917533
• Release Date: June 1982
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"