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Parmenides and the Logic of Being

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Feyerabend,  “ Parmenides and the Logic of Being , ”   The Conquest of Abundance , Ch. 3 Recommended:   Makenzie, “ Parmenides and Early Greek Allegory ” Kingsley, “ Parmenides and Empedocles ”

Feyerabend's Xenophanes

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Feyerabend, The Conquest of Abundance , Ch. 2 Xenophanes in Freeman, Ancilla to the Presocratic Philosophers Recommended:  Schrödinger, “The Religion of Xenophanes. Heraclitus of Ephesus” in Nature and the Greeks Tyler, “ If Horses Had Hands ”  Gattei, “ Feyerabend, Truth and Relativisms ” Versnel, “ One God: Three Greek Experiments in Oneness ” Papazian, “ Gods and Fossils ”

Achilles’ Passionate Conjecture

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Feyerabend, The Conquest of Abundance , Introduction and Ch. 1 Homer, The Iliad Recommended:  Heit, “ Reasons for Relativism ” Blake, “ Feyerabend’s Stories of Immanence ” Hacking, “ Screw You, I’m Going Home ”

Feyerabend’s Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge

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  Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge (1975) Against Method Recommended:  Meynell, “ Feyerabend’s Method ” Hacking,  “ Introduction to the Fourth Edition ” Fuller, “ Being There WithThomas Kuhn ” Alford, “Epistemological Relativism & Political Theory” Walker, “ Perils of Paradigm Mentalities ” Serra and Maia, “ Looking for Routes in Mach’s Epistemology ” Nanay, “ Internal History vs. External History ”

Who was Paul Feyerabend (1924-1994)?

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  Recommended: Horgan, “Paul Karl Feyerabend: The Worst Enemy of Science,” Scientific American