Feyerabend: ¿A postmodern philosopher of the science?

Abstract

Feyerabend’s thought has been object of multiple and divergent interpretations. But among them seems to be unanimous the inscription of his work within the coordinates of a postmodernism or a radical skepticism. The epistemological anarchism constitutes a reduction ad absurdum of attempts of logical positivism and critical rationalism to defining axiomatic or methodologically the science. In this sense, it can be treated as negative and skeptical arguments concerning those notions of science. However, this hermeneutic offers a fragmented and partial view of his thought. Our purpose is to reconstruct the thought that he formulated in his last years, in order to show that it does not meet the postmodern characteristics that the critics habitually ascribe to him. And particularly, we will determine the sense in which it is legitimate to characterize his work as postmodern.