Feyerabend

• Feyerabend argues that the world is too complex to be known with the simplified tools provided by methodology and epistemology, and advocates for the use of all epistemological tools to understand the world.
• Feyerabend is a supporter of methodological anarchism, suggesting that scientists should violate methodological prescriptions in order to foster their freedom.
• Feyerabend advocates for methodological pluralism, suggesting that scientists should rely on different methods to enlarge their capacity to know the world.
• Science is not a rational enterprise, as new ideas are often judged as irrational from the standpoint of the old paradigm.
• The Copernican point of view, from Galilei to the XX Century, is an example of how a new conception of the world/universe converged, despite initial paradoxes.
• Theories become clear and “reasonable” only after incoherent parts of them have been used for a long time, according to Feyerabend.
• Feyerabend advocates for methodological pluralism, suggesting that there are many different methods and all have the same value.
• Western science, religion, magic, mythology are all valid in their sociocultural contexts, according to Feyerabend.
• Feyerabend's position is relativistic in character, asserting that every method/theoretical frame has its own validity in specific socio cultural contexts.
• Feyerabend's principle is "Anything goes", meaning that anything has some validity in some socio cultural contexts.
• Scientific change occurs by virtue of a comparison between scientific theories, rather than between theories and observations, according to Feyerabend.
• Feyerabend argues that the world is an unknown entity, and that science should embrace all the epistemological tools to understand it.
• Feyerabend criticizes the traditional philosophy of science and advocates for a radical critique.
• Feyerabend argues that methodological and epistemological prescriptions hinder the scientist's freedom and creativity.
• Feyerabend advocates for methodological anarchism, suggesting that scientists should violate methodological prescriptions in order to foster their freedom.
• Science is not a rational enterprise, as new ideas are often judged as irrational from the standpoint of the old paradigm, as exemplified in the Copernican point of view from Galilei to the XX Century.