It’s Feyerabend’s centenary. And I have been asked to comment on a paper by Stephen Turner (USF) that is forthcoming in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science 2024. More than twenty years he ago drove me around Tampa in his Alfa-Romeo (or perhaps a Lancia) during an ill-fated campus visit. They preferred not to fill the line that year rather than hiring me. Make of that what you will, but I read Spinoza’s
Regarding your final sentence, I discovered something striking about Feyerabend a while back. You imply, and I always assumed, that Feyerabend started with "anything goes" as an abstract methodological position and used alternative medicine as an example.
But the source I read indicated that it went the other way - he was strongly committed to alternative medicine, and this was what drove the development of his theoretical position. His SEP article gives some support to this interpretation
Regarding your final sentence, I discovered something striking about Feyerabend a while back. You imply, and I always assumed, that Feyerabend started with "anything goes" as an abstract methodological position and used alternative medicine as an example.
But the source I read indicated that it went the other way - he was strongly committed to alternative medicine, and this was what drove the development of his theoretical position. His SEP article gives some support to this interpretation
I am not surprised by this.