Occupation: Philosopher Birth: January 13, 1924 Death: February 11, 1994
Human paint, produce films and videos; they dance, dream and make music; they engage in political action, exchange goods, perform rituals, build hous….
Copernicanism and other essential ingredients of modern science survived only because reason was frequently overruled in their past..
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….
Mathematical Reasoning is not only exact; it has its own criteria of reality..
Rationalism... is a secularized form of the belief in the power of the word of God..
The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there a….
Those who violate the rules of a language do not enter new territory; they leave the domain of meaningful discourse. Even facts in these circumstance….
Ultimate Reality, if such an entity can be postulated, is ineffable..
Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-orde….
Yes, the academic world is screwed up, and there is nothing you can do about it. But don't worry about that. Just do what you want. If you know what ….
I do not see why I should be polite to tyrants, who slobber of humanitarianism and think only of their own petty interests..
The separation of science and non-science is not only artificial but also detrimental to the advancement of knowledge. If we want to understand natur….
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 ….
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….
Today science prevails not because of its comparative merits, but because the show has been rigged in its favour... It reigns supreme because some pa….
If the world is an aggregate of relatively independent regions, then any assumption of universal laws is false and a demand for universal norms tyran….
Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise..
Science is neither a single tradition, nor the best tradition there is, except for people who have become accustomed to its presence, its benefits an….
The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and social consequences of….
Science is much closer to myth than a scientific philosophy is prepared to admit. It is one of the many forms of thought that have been developed by ….
Experience arises together with theoretical assumptions not before them, and an experience without theory is just as incomprehensible as is (allegedl….