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"Pseudoscience after Feyerabend": Ian James Kidd in conversation with Chiara Ambrosio
Event Time: 11am PT/2pm ET/7pm UK
Pseudoscience after Feyerabend
Ian James Kidd in conversation with Chiara Ambrosio
Renowned philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend famously defended astrology, voodoo, witchcraft, Chinese traditional medicine, and other “non-scientific” beliefs, practices, and traditions. It is partly for these defences that, during the 1970s, Feyerabend became famous – or, rather, infamous – and they contributed to his now established image as an “epistemological anarchist” and “the worst enemy of science”.
In this event, Ian James Kidd and Chiara Ambrosio will use Feyerabend as a starting point for thinking through many of the key epistemological, ontological, metaphysical, political, and ethical questions raised by pseudoscience. They will also explore why pseudoscience became a topic in the history of philosophy of science and how this topic relates to newer insights into scientific pluralism. Find our more and register here.