Occupation: Philosopher Birth: January 13, 1924 Death: February 11, 1994
Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-orde….
Given any rule, however �fundamental� or �necessary� for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, bu….
My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is, rather, to convince the reader that all methodologies, ….
Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompat….
The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic ….
First-world science is one science among many; by claiming to be more it ceases to be an instrument of research and turns into a (political) pressure….
Confronted with such a variety most philosophers try to establish one approach to the exclusion of all others. As far as they are concerned there can….
No single theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain.
The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths..
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education..
Taking experimental results and observations for granted and putting the burden of proof on the theory means taking the observational ideology for gr….
An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice and so on….
One might get the impression that I recommend a new methodology which replaces induction by counterinduction and uses a multiplicity of theories, met….
Science is not sacrosanct. The mere fact that it exists, is admired, has results is not sufficient for making it a measure of excellence. Modern scie….
It is often assumed that science starts from facts and eschews counter-factual theories. Nothing could be further from the truth. What is one of the ….
What is surprising is that almost all the trends that developed within the sciences, Aristotelianism and an extreme Platonism included, produced resu….
Results from a given approach are "facts" as long as the approach fits the group or the tradition that is being addressed..
So far Unitarian realism claiming to possess positive knowledge about Ultimate Reality has succeeded only by excluding large areas of phenomena or by….
Every profession has an ideology and a drive for power that goes far beyond its achievements and it is the task of democracy to keep this ideology an….
There is no coherent knowledge , i.e. no uniform comprehensive account of the world and the events in it. There is no comprehensive truth that goes b….
Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress.