On the Limited Validity of Falsificationism Feyerabend’s Theoretical Pluralism and its Relation to Popper, Wittgenstein and Bohm
This essay develops Feyerabend’s early philosophy of science as intended as a criticism of Karl Popper’s falsificationism and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s “quietism” in “Explanation, Reduction and Empiricism” [ERE (1962)]. It illustrates how Wittgenstein and David Bohm played central roles in the genesis of ERE (1962) as Feye...