Paul (who taught at Berkeley) wrote:
""'anything goes' is not a 'principle' I hold... but the terrified exclamation of a rationalist who takes a closer look at history." (Feyerabend, Against method, 1975)"
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The problem: in German, gehen, 'to go', can be used in ways it kant in English. Anything goes, in German, need NOT the clause, 'go whither?'
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Feyerabend was not really a language maven. Like Lakatos, he was taking on the Establishment, including the scientific research establishment. Clicking on the one version of Against Method online you get "The security certificate presented by this website was not issued by a trusted certificate authority". Implicatures away!
ReplyDeletewe scribbled a few things on Feyerabend a while back. Feyerabend's...neo-Luddite-ism seems a bit quaint in ways--considering the Microsoft-ocracy-- but...in other ways, not.
Good. I see he was in Berkeley as from the 50s -- 1950s, I mean. I wonder what caused him to leave such a beautiful country as Austria, etc. -- apparently he never came back. So, when Grice arrived in Berkeley, Feyerabend was well established there, in a sort of way.
ReplyDeleteOr something. Thanks for the link to your writing. Will have a look, and comment, hopefully. (Hopefully interestingly, too).
Check PF's bio-data on Wiki--rather...colorful. That said, he's not my guru, but his ideas still seem relevant--and preferable to gauchistes such as Zizek or Badiou (or the right of mormons, opus dei catholics and zombie fundamentalists of whatever type, including ivy league metaphysicians )
ReplyDeleteGood. Will do.
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