Feyerabend's perspectivism.
Although, Feyerabend himself seems never to have used the term 'perspectivism' to designate a philosophical position, I think his views about science are very well characterized as perspectival. In fact, his later writings contain much that contributes to current thinking about perspectivism. I would like, therefore, to distinguish my own perspectivism from Feyerabend's. In the end, I will argue, his perspectivism is lacking enough of the critical bite that the younger Feyerabend found so attractive in Popper's philosophy.
Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota, United States; Department of History & Philosophy of Science, Indiana University, United States. Electronic address: giere@umn.edu.
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Aristotle's principle; Being; Perspectival realism; Perspectivism; Relativism; Stage metaphor