Abstract :
Feyerabend criticizes, in respect of science, the understanding arguing that science progresses with fixed and universal rules. According to Feyerabend, all kinds of knowledge forms including science is a tradition, and none of them is superior to other. Traditions are neither good nor bad, only they are in existence. Science itself is also a tradition or a side of a tradition. Feyerabend opposes the view of that science progresses through scientists who strictly adhere to the principles of mind. There is not a universal method in his scientific method. The effective principle is the principle of “whatever works”. Science is not based on the rational systematic rules, if so, science would not progress. Science is an anarchist attempt for Feyerabend. Its relationship established with the epistemological anarchism is at this point. Feyerabend’s goal is to save science to be a set of strict rules. Feyerabend, in anarchist epistemology, uses principles of pluralism and whatever works as bases in the method of scientific knowledge in contrast to objectivist, linear progressiveand monist understanding of science, by putting forward that the history of science has filled with irregular and irrational examples.
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Feyerabend , philosophy of science , value of scientific knowledge , scientific method , epistemological anarchism
