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Feyerabend questions science in this important book, which he revised and re-authored by making additions and deletions two years before his death. Epistemological, methodological, sociological... questions. These are shocking, even devastating questions. It discusses the seat of power that science, which is one of the ways of understanding and giving meaning to the world, has occupied with modernism. Is science the only way? Didn't those who lived in cultures and times where Western science had not yet fully penetrated overcome the problems that life put in front of them and survived? Couldn't they stay later? (It may be difficult to give a positive answer to this question today, when their own resources and culture have been destroyed. The question is whose work this is...) What makes science "Science", that is, what elevates what science says to the level of the only truth and convinces us that this is so? ? Plausibility? Briefly, the method of science; Feyerabend breaks our minds by questioning rationalism and the tools he uses. So, does Western science have no choice but to use "rationalism" as a method? Of course there is: Feyerabend reveals, based on historical examples (such as the example of Galileo), how "rationality" is violated when it comes to scientific revolutions, that is, in moments of leaps when the paradigm changes. Should science, which starts from people's minds and reinforces its unrivalry with the hegemony it has established in educational institutions and universities and its weight in the shares allocated to it from the budget, continue its despotic attitude that is not accountable to anyone even in its practices that concern the public? Can we talk about democracy in a place where those who are not experts on the subject have no say? Wouldn't science, which throws away other forms of knowledge, be deprived of fresh blood that could come from outside itself? Feyerebend fundamentally sabotages the things we are most sure of, the things we accept without questioning, the things on which we have built a whole world of mentality. Those who engage in scientific production and those who are interested in science at any level cannot escape the questions this anarchist of knowledge has left in our lap.



Number of Pages: 384

Year of Printing: 2014


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Details Publications

First Printing Year: 2010

Number of Pages: 384

Language Turkish