[lbo-talk] Waht is scientism why does the leff love it so?

[ravi]

At around 10/5/06 3:37 pm, Chuck Grimes wrote:
> CB: Evidently, Feyerbend described science as being essentially anarchistic.
> 
> <...>
> 
> In the above sense, then yes Feyerbend at one point was very much
> anarchistic in his attack on science based on authority rather than
> empiricism. Authority in this particular case can be understood as
> only entertaining work that strictly follows the `scientific
> method'. This is part of reason why he titled one of his works, Against Method.
> 

Chuck,

Good points. I would add this: PKF described scientific progress (just
as any other progress) as, (and he was in favour of) epistemological
anarchism, or as he put it "anything goes". He was not an anarchist in
the political sense: Killing Time, his autobiography, has some
interesting bits on being at UCB during the student protest years.

	--ravi

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