Philosophy of nature
By: Feyerabend, Paul.
Contributor(s): Heit, Helmut [ed.] | Oberheim, Eric [ed.] | Lotter, Dorothea [tr.].
Publisher: Cambridge Polity Press 2016Description: xxxii, 260p.ISBN: 9780745651590.Subject(s): Philosophy | Philosophy of natureDDC classification: 113 | F437pE Summary: Philosopher, physicist, and anarchist Paul Feyerabend was one of the most unconventional scholars of his time. His book Against Method has become a modern classic. Yet it is not well known that Feyerabend spent many years working on a philosophy of nature that was intended to comprise three volumes covering the period from the earliest traces of stone age cave paintings to the atomic physics of the 20th century – a project that, as he conveyed in a letter to Imre Lakatos, almost drove him nuts: "Damn the, Naturphilosophie."| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Philosopher, physicist, and anarchist Paul Feyerabend was one of the most unconventional scholars of his time. His book Against Method has become a modern classic. Yet it is not well known that Feyerabend spent many years working on a philosophy of nature that was intended to comprise three volumes covering the period from the earliest traces of stone age cave paintings to the atomic physics of the 20th century – a project that, as he conveyed in a letter to Imre Lakatos, almost drove him nuts: "Damn the, Naturphilosophie."
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