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My Encounter with Philosophical Anarchist Paul Feyerabend — John Horgan (The Science Writer)

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Feyerabend says washing dishes for his wife, physicist Grazia Borrini, is his “favorite activity,” but Borrini says he washes dishes only “once in a blue moon.” Whom should I believe, the philosopher or the physicist? Credit: Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend. As things get crazier, philosopher Paul Feyerabend makes more sense. Below is an updated version of a piece I wrote after meeting him in 1992. Consider reading this after checking out my profiles of Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn. –John Horgan All philosophical skeptics risk self-contradiction. Karl Popper, in his interview with me, pounds the table and insists he is not dogmatic. Thomas Kuhn twists himself in knots trying to say exactly what he means when he says unambiguous communication is impossible. One way to sidestep these traps is to embrace--even revel in--paradox, irony and rhetorical excess. That is the strategy of Paul Feyerabend, who calls himself not a skeptic but an “epistemological anarchist.” His first book, Against Method,

My Encounter with Philosophical Anarchist Paul Feyerabend Aug 6 Written By John Horgan Feyerabend says washing dishes for his wife, physicist Grazia Borrini, is his “favorite activity,” but Borrini says he washes dishes only “once in a blue moon.” Whom should I believe, the philosopher or the physicist? Credit: Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend. August 6, 2023. As things get crazier, philosopher Paul Feyerabend makes more sense. Below is an updated version of a piece I wrote after meeting him in 1992. Consider reading this after checking out my profiles of Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn . –John Horgan Al

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