Feyerabend P.K. Realism, rationalism and scientific method. Philosophical papers. Volume 1

Cambridge University Press, 1981. — 368 p.The present volume and its companion discuss three ideas that have played an important role in the history of science, philosophy and civilization: criticism, proliferation and reality. The ideas are presented, explained and made the starting points of argumentative chains.Introduction: scientific realism and philosophical realism
An attempt at a realistic interpretation of experience
On the interpretation of scientific theories
Explanation, reduction and empiricism
On the 'meaning' of scientific terms
Reply to criticism: comments on Smart, Sellars and Putnam
Science without experience
Introduction: proliferation and realism as methodological principles
Linguistic arguments and scientific method
Materialism and the mind-body problem
Realism and instrumentalism: comments on the logic of factual support
A note on the problem of induction
On the quantum theory of measurement
Professor Bohm's philosophy of nature
Reichenbach's interpretation of quantum mechanics
Niels Bohr's world view
Hidden variables and the argument of Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen