Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Conflict and Harmony
Chapter 2 The Disunity of Science
Chapter 3 The Abundance of Nature
Chapter 4 Dehumanizing Humans
Editor's notes
Literature

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.

Reviews

"The lectures are engaging, educative and entertaining - publiclecturing at its best. Feyerabend offers an intriguing,entertaining and very original application of the history andphilosophy of science to contemporary social, intellectual andpublic issues." British Journal for the History of Science "Each of the four lectures is excellent and interrelateswith theothers. Feyerabend's appealing and evocative entrances toscientific ideological claims permeate, and their lucidity willmake identification and extraction of key concepts readily possiblefor scholars." The Year's Work in Cultural and CriticalTheory "Offers intrepid scholars much to go on (on the relationshipbetween Wittgenstein and Feyerabend), as well as being anentertaining and vigorous philosophical exercise in itself." Philosophical Investigations "In this posthumously published book, the maverick philosopher ofscience Paul Feyerabend questions the dominance of abstract,theoretical, objectivist science over more human modes ofthought." New Scientist "Stimulating, thought-provoking, and hugelyentertaining." Morning Star "Its clear conversational style makes the book a usefulintroduction to Feyerabend's thought." Claremont Review of Books "Both the style of presentation, and the question and answersessions, will make this book accessible to a popular readership.It will be met with enthusiasm by those with a prior engagementwith Feyerabend s work." Metascience "Feyerabend is not attacking science but rather the ideology ofscience and the metaphysical pronouncements of philosophers andtheoreticians. He makes an eloquent and imaginative plea for theimportance of the diverse forms of knowledge embodied in thepracticalities of everyday life." David Bloor, University of Edinburgh "The Tyranny of Science is no work of arid scholarship ortechnical philosophy. It is the work of a philosophicalstory-teller who recounts 'fairytales' to situate the ideas hediscusses. Feyerabend brings science and philosophy down from theheights of abstract theory to the ground of practice and experiencewhich animates them." Howard Sankey, University of Melbourne