Integration Of Science And Humanities

Feyerabend who has been called one of the four giant in the field of philosophy of science by Occident philosophy,he has an important position in the history of western scientific philosophy and a significant impact on the western philosophy of science, for his review of thought different scholars has different views in the philosophy of science. Although Feyerabend has been influenced by the traditional philosophy of science, but he can camp out from traditional science and can realize the existing problems in the traditional philosophy of science,and criticism of the traditional philosophy of science sharply,from inside of the philosophy of science to give the fatal blow.He overturns the traditional classic view of philosophy of science. He advocates democracy, freedom, equality of science, to deconstruct the superiority of science against the hegemony of science, he advocated " anything goes " and anarchistic epistemology and pluralism of methodology, opposed to the traditional principle of scientific methodology of single monism, thinking that any method as long as it is conducive to scientific development can be adopted, he have the profound critique for the traditional science,so that he has been known as the "anti-science philosopher", even "enemy" of science. However his criticism of the traditional science contains the freedom, equality, democracy, and diverse ideas from the other hand has promoted the development of the humanities, the fusion of science and humanities has a significant influence, also promoted the integration of science and humanities. At the same time the development of postmodern philosophy of science has a significant influence.Feyerabend has carried on the deconstruction of traditional science by his anarchistic epistemology pluralism methods and free society idea.Feyerabend critique the foundations of science to his anarchism epistemology, in his opinion that traditional scientific is success to establish a certain standard, and follow these standards which has been used to guide the scientific research. But he thinks that this kind of universal standards do not promote the development of science, on the contrary will hinder the progress of science. So he proposed relativism epistemology to refute the scientific standards. In the traditional science view, the reason why science is scientific is that science is rational and is objective truthfulness, but in Feyerabend’s opinion those can not been accepted.He thought that objectivity is not peculiar to science because objectivity existed before the science.In his opinion science also is not rational and the development of science cannot leave the irrational. Not only that, Feyerabend criticize the traditional monism by pluralism methods and criticize the traditional scientific induction by anti-induction.He destructed the advantages of science by destructing the two hypothesis which can prove the advantage of science,he also criticize the delimitation of thought which has made a boundary line between science and non-science.In his opinion it 1 hinders the progress of science.His conception or free society requires that a variety of traditions can develop of freedom and equality.and canceling the protection of science by national.He requires the separation between science and education to criticize the ideological basis of scientific superiority.Feyerabend completed the deconstruction of science and the chauvinism of science to create space for the development of other traditional.Human-oriented thoughts such as freedom,equality and democracy ware contained in his deconstruction of science.The human-oriented thought not only promote the development of science but also promotes the fuse between scientism and humanism.