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Save:'Against Method' by Paul Karl Feyerabend is a thought-provoking book that challenges the traditional view of the scientific method as dogma. Feyerabend argues that scientific progress is messy and chaotic, and that this chaos is essential for true scientific research. He uses Galileo as a case study to illustrate his points and questions the idealization of the scientific method. The book delves into the relationship between science and society, advocating for a formal separation of science and state. Feyerabend's writing style is described as provocative and argumentative, leading readers to question their beliefs about science and methodology.
The idea of a method that contains firm, unchanging, and absolutely binding principles for conducting the business of science meets considerable difficulty when confronted with the results of historic...
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