{"product_id":"three-dialogues-on-knowledge-isbn-9780631179184","title":"Three Dialogues on Knowledge","description":"The Socratic, or dialog, form is central to the history of philosophy and has been the discipline's canonical genre ever since. Paul Feyerabend's \u003ci\u003eThree Dialogues on Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e resurrects the form to provide an astonishingly flexible and invigorating analysis of epistemological, ethical and metaphysical problems. He uses literary strategies - of irony, voice and distance - to make profoundly philosophical points about the epistemic, existential and political aspects of common sense and scientific knowledge. He writes about ancient and modern relativism; the authority of science; the ignorance of scientists; the nature of being; and true and false enlightenment. \u003cp\u003eThroughout \u003ci\u003eThree Dialogues on Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e is provocative, controversial and inspiring. It is, unlike most current philosophical writing, written for readers with a keen sense of what matters and why.\u003c\/p\u003e  First Dialogue (1990). \u003cp\u003eSecond Dialogue (1976).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThird Dialogue (1989).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostscript.\u003c\/p\u003e \"An audacious thinker, a brilliant polemicist, an iconoclast ...\" \u003ci\u003ePublishers' Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePaul K. Feyerabend\u003c\/b\u003e (1924-1994) was professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and Professor of the Philosophy of Science at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. He was previously Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, the Free University of Berlin, University College, London, and the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAgainst Method\u003c\/i\u003e (1988), \u003ci\u003eFarewell to Reason \u003c\/i\u003e(1987) and \u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Papers\u003c\/i\u003e (1984).  The Socratic, or dialog, form is central to the history of philosophy and has been the discipline's canonical genre ever since. Paul Feyerabend's \u003ci\u003eThree Dialogues on Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e resurrects the form to provide an astonishingly flexible and invigorating analysis of epistemological, ethical and metaphysical problems. He uses literary strategies - of irony, voice and distance - to make profoundly philosophical points about the epistemic, existential and political aspects of common sense and scientific knowledge. He writes about ancient and modern relativism; the authority of science; the ignorance of scientists; the nature of being; and true and false enlightenment. \u003cp\u003eThroughout \u003ci\u003eThree Dialogues on Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e is provocative, controversial and inspiring. It is, unlike most current philosophical writing, written for readers with a keen sense of what matters and why.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990389309669,"sku":"NP9780631179184","price":24.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631179184.jpg?v=1761787631","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/three-dialogues-on-knowledge-isbn-9780631179184","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}