This book uses the dialogue form to analyze epistemological, ethical and metaphysical problems. It employs such literary devices as irony to further the philosophical arguments. Among the specific topics covered in this volume are: ancient and modern relativism; the authority of science; the ignorance of scientists; the nature of being; and true and false enlightenment.
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Paul K. Feyerabend (1924-1994) was professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and Professor of the Philosophy of Science at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. He was previously Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, the Free University of Berlin, University College, London, and the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is the author of Against Method (1988), Farewell to Reason (1987) and Philosophical Papers (1984).
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