Science in a Free Society
by Paul K. Feyerabend · first published 1978
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Science in a Free Society is a 1978 book by Paul Feyerabend that continues the argument of his 1975 Against Method and criticizes the primacy of science and the scientific method in free societies.
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I recommend for you to read Feyerabend's Science in a Free Society.
on “'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win $34,000 Polymarket bet” ↗…on the subject! [0]: Kuhn, T.S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962 [1]: 1975. Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge [2]: 1978. Science in a Free Society [3]: 1977. Progress and its Problems: Towards a Theory of Scientific Growth [4]: 1996. Beyond Positivism and Relativism
on “A letter to the TEDx community on TEDx and bad science” ↗he says something like this in Science in a Free Society, I'll see if I can find it.
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