Three dialogues on knowledge
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Three dialogues on knowledge
Blackwell, 1991
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: ISBN 9780631179177
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This book uses the dialogue form to analyze epistemological, ethical and metaphysical problems. It employs such literary devices as irony to further the philosophical arguments. Among the specific topics covered in this volume are: ancient and modern relativism; the authority of science; the ignorance of scientists; the nature of being; and true and false enlightenment.
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: pbk ISBN 9780631179184
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The Socratic, or dialog, form is central to the history of philosophy and has been the discipline's canonical genre ever since. Paul Feyerabend's Three Dialogues on Knowledge resurrects the form to provide an astonishingly flexible and invigorating analysis of epistemological, ethical and metaphysical problems. He uses literary strategies - of irony, voice and distance - to make profoundly philosophical points about the epistemic, existential and political aspects of common sense and scientific knowledge. He writes about ancient and modern relativism; the authority of science; the ignorance of scientists; the nature of being; and true and false enlightenment. Throughout Three Dialogues on Knowledge is provocative, controversial and inspiring. It is, unlike most current philosophical writing, written for readers with a keen sense of what matters and why.
Table of Contents
First Dialogue (1990). Second Dialogue (1976).
Third Dialogue (1989).
Postscript.
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