[D66] Science in a Free Society

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Science in a Free Society
by Paul Feyerabend

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222 pages / November 1982 / 9780860917533

No study in the philosophy of science created such controversy in the 
seventies as Paul Feyerabend’s Against Method. In this work, Feyerabend 
reviews that controversy, and extends his critique beyond the problem of 
scientific rules and methods, to the social function and direction of 
science today.

In the first part of the book, he launches a sustained and irreverent 
attack on the prestige of science in the West. The lofty authority of 
the “expert” claimed by scientists is, he argues, incompatible with any 
genuine democracy, and often merely serves to conceal entrenched 
prejudices and divided opinions with the scientific community itself. 
Feyerabend insists that these can and should be subjected to the 
arbitration of the lay population, whose closes interests they 
constantly affect—as struggles over atomic energy programs so powerfully 
attest.

Calling for far greater diversity in the content of education to 
facilitate democratic decisions over such issues, Feyerabend recounts 
the origin and development of his own ideas—successively engaged by 
Brecht, Ehrenhaft, Popper, Mill and Lakatos—in a spirited intellectual 
self-portrait.

Science in a Free Society is a striking intervention into one of the 
most topical debates in contemporary culture and politics.
Reviews

“Shrewd … acute … robustly anti-parochial … The issues raised are of the 
first importance … Feyerabend’s plea for a new catholicity of 
understanding is often poignant and persuasive.”

– Nature

“An audacious thinker, a brilliant polemicist, an iconoclast … 
exhilarating.”

– Publishers Weekly

“A stimulating work of philosophy in the best Socratic tradition.”

– Time Out