Module 1 : Science as Culture Social Context of the Production of Scientific Knowledge

Lecture 4 : Views of Paul Feyerabend


Questions

1. ‘Give me any norm you like, I will show that it is violated at certain important phases in the history of science, not by oversight or negligence, but consciously and deliberately'. Elucidate.

2. What do you mean by consistency and correspondence conditions?

3. Why does Feyerabend reject both consistency and correspondence conditions?

4. How does Feyeraband repudiate the possibility of drawing a line of demarcation between science and non-science?

5. Which school of thought propounded methodological dualism?

6. Natural sciences aim at ‘explanation' whereas social sciences aim at ‘understanding' of phenomena. Explain.

7. Can there be ‘the' method of science? Elucidate.

8. What do you mean by methodological pluralism?