Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Notes on References.
Introduction: Feyerabend's Life and Work.
1. Philosophy and the Aim of Science.
2. Meaning: The Attack on Positivism.
3. Theories of Observation.
4. Scientific Realism and Instrumentalism.
5. Theoretical Monism.
6. Incommensurability.
7. Theoretical Pluralism.
8. Materialism.
9. Science without Method.
10. Relativism, Rationalism and a Free Society.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
John Preston is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Reading.
'This is a brave, direct, competent, insightful and sympathetic
exposition of the total output of one of the best-known, most
admired, least comprehended philosophers of the second half of the
twentieth century. It is a fair critical assessment of Feyerabend's
work as intriguing and inspired but as falling short of his goal.'
Joseph Agassi, York University, Ontario, Canada
'Preston provides a sympathetic but critical account of
Feyerabend's work. The scope is comprehensive and the treatment is
fair-minded, sensible and thoroughly professional. The content is
certainly better than anything I have encountered on Feyerabend. It
can be read by those who have not read Feyerabend and by those
whose acquaintance with philosophy of science is limited or
non-existent.' William Newton-Smith, Balliol College, Oxford
'John Preston has done us a signal service in charting the chages
in Feyerabend's thought and in sympathetically explaining why he
thought what he did.' Mind
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