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Feyerabend's Epistemological Anarchism - How Science Works and its Importance for Science Education (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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Feyerabend's Epistemological Anarchism - How Science Works and its Importance for Science Education (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education, 50
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This book argues that the traditional image of Feyerabend is
erroneous and that, contrary to common belief, he was a great
admirer of science. It shows how Feyerabend presented a vision of
science that represented how science really works. Besides giving a
theoretical framework based on Feyerabends philosophy of science,
the book offers criteria that can help readers to evaluate and
understand research reported in important international science
education journals, with respect to Feyerabend's epistemological
anarchism. The book includes an evaluation of general chemistry and
physics textbooks. Most science curricula and textbooks provide the
following advice to students: Do not allow theories in
contradiction with observations, and all scientific theories must
be formulated inductively based on experimental facts. Feyerabend
questioned this widely prevalent premise of science education in
most parts of the world, and in contrast gave the following advice:
Scientists can accept a hypothesis despite experimental evidence to
the contrary and scientific theories are not always consistent with
all the experimental data. No wonder Feyerabend became a
controversial philosopher and was considered to be against
rationalism and anti-science. Recent research in philosophy of
science, however, has shown that most of Feyerabends philosophical
ideas are in agreement with recent trends in the 21st century. Of
the 120 articles from science education journals, evaluated in this
book only 9% recognized that Feyerabend was presenting a plurality
of perspectives based on how science really works. Furthermore, it
has been shown that Feyerabend could even be considered as a
perspectival realist. Among other aspects, Feyerabend emphasized
that in order to look for breakthroughs in science one does not
have to be complacent about the truth of the theories but rather
has to look for opportunities to "break rules" or "violate
categories." Mansoor Niaz carefully analyses references to
Feyerabend in the literature and displays the importance of
Feyerabend's philosophy in analyzing, historical episodes. Niaz
shows through this remarkable book a deep understanding to the
essence of science. - Calvin Kalman, Concordia University, Canada
In this book Mansoor Niaz explores the antecedents, context and
features of Feyerabend's work and offers a more-nuanced
understanding, then reviews and considers its reception in the
science education and philosophy of science literature. This is a
valuable contribution to scholarship about Feyerabend, with the
potential to inform further research as well as science education
practice.- David Geelan, Griffith University, Australia
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