Feyerabend's Thoughts On Multiple Realism

Feyerabend is a "weirdo" in the history of philosophy of science.His man and his thoughts,and the novelty and strangeness are worthy of our investigation.He shows a philosopher of science thinking about science in his slick ink.It can be said that he is a very great figure who cannot be avoided in the history of philosophy of science.This article strives to analyze the standpoint of realism from his philosophy of science and gradually discover his views on realism and its ideological origin.Feyerabend has his own relatively novel view on realism,which is quite different from other realists.This article also strives to find the uniqueness of his thoughts in induction and analysis,sort out and explore them,and provide a reference for future realism research.Basic work.This article takes Feyerabend's views on the history of philosophy of science as the main line,divided into the following parts:The first part: mainly expounds Feyerabend's realist position.After Feyerabend focused on the analysis of the history of philosophy of science in "Natural Philosophy",in fact,the origin of the theory of thought came into being,here He mainly criticized the positivist view of reality and the instrumental view of reality,pointed out the theoretical flaws of these two views of reality,and gradually formed his own path of realism.The second part: will focus on sorting out the inner trend of his scientific realism—that is,its generation logic.After exploring and analyzing the history of science,Feyerabend reflects on some of Kuhn's thoughts,focusing on it The paradigm thought has been criticized,and it has been reflected many times in Feyerabend's book "Against the Method: An Anarchist Theory of Knowledge",which also shows that Feyerabend wants to seek a new methodological path.That is to say,his pluralist methodological path,that is,the principle of "anything is OK",in which he also embodies his realist position and viewpoints.The theoretical process from criticism to proliferation to realism is worthy of analysis.In "Farewell" The critique of the theory in "Reason" leads to the realism trend and the realism trend of theory proliferation.This is the first point.The second point is the theoretical trend of Feyerabend's positivism program criticism,which includes a criticism of the dichotomy of theoretical terms and observation terms,and a criticism of empirical reductionism.In the critique of rationality and positivism,Feyerabend gradually formed his own pluralistic view of reality,and this pluralistic view of reality is not essentially to escape reality itself,but is based on traditional realism.,From this premise derives what he thinks of the real pluralism.The third part: aims to find out the connotation of Feyerabend's scientific multiple realism.His analysis of historical knowledge in "Knowledge,Science and Relativism" leads to scientific realism.In this,we need to explore The historical nature of knowledge and the non-historical criticism of scientific knowledge,analyze its causes and trends,and grasp the connotation and meaning.Feyerabend also made his own explanation in the reality of substantive realism and scientific theory.After such a gradual analysis,the pulse of what we call plural realism is formed.In the process of exploring its essence,we must focus on analyzing internal pluralism and external pluralism.The fourth part: This chapter focuses on the theoretical significance of Feyerabend's multiple realism,its development significance for scientific realism,strengthens the status of non-scientific realism,and expands our debate on scientific realism and anti-realism.Understand,this is something that predecessors did not have,and it has a certain innovative significance for the development of scientific realism and the development of philosophy of science.