Three Dialogues on KnowledgeISBN: 978-0-631-17918-4
Paperback
176 pages
August 1991, Wiley-Blackwell
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The Socratic, or dialog, form is central to the history of
philosophy and has been the discipline's canonical genre ever
since. Paul Feyerabend's Three Dialogues on Knowledge
resurrects the form to provide an astonishingly flexible and
invigorating analysis of epistemological, ethical and metaphysical
problems. He uses literary strategies - of irony, voice and
distance - to make profoundly philosophical points about the
epistemic, existential and political aspects of common sense and
scientific knowledge. He writes about ancient and modern
relativism; the authority of science; the ignorance of scientists;
the nature of being; and true and false enlightenment.
Throughout Three Dialogues on Knowledge is provocative, controversial and inspiring. It is, unlike most current philosophical writing, written for readers with a keen sense of what matters and why.