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Title Page
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Paul Feyerabend, an Historical Philosopher of Nature
Editorial Notes
Paul Feyerabend: Philosophy of Nature
Preliminary Note
1. Presuppositions of Myths, and the Knowledge of their Inventors
1.1. Stone Age Art and Knowledge of Nature
1.2. Megalithic Astronomy (Stonehenge)
1.3. Critique of Primitivist Interpretations of the Prehistoric Era
1.4. The Dynamic Worldview of Stone Age Humans
2. The Structure and Function of Myths
2.1. Theories of Myth
2.2. The Theory of Nature Myths and Structuralism
3. Homer’s Aggregate Universe
3.1. The Paratactic World of Archaic Art
3.2. Worldview and Knowledge in Homer’s Epics
3.3. Views of Reality and the Language of Science: Some Basic Considerations
4. Transition to an Explicitly Conceptual Approach to Nature
4.1. The New World of the Philosophers: Advantages and Disadvantages
4.2. Historical Factors for the Emergence of Philosophy
4.3. Predecessors in Hesiod’s and Oriental Cosmogonies
5. Philosophy of Nature through Parmenides
5.1. Hesiod and Anaximander: Changing Worldviews
5.2. Xenophanes: Critic of Religion and Epistemologist
5.3. Parmenides: The Origins of Western Philosophy of Nature
6. Western Philosophy of Nature from Aristotle to Bohr
6.1. Aristotle’s Research Program
6.2. Descartes: The Mathematical Approach to Nature
6.3. Galileo, Bacon, Agrippa: Empiricism without Foundations
6.4. Hegel: The Dynamics of Concepts
6.5. Newton, Leibniz, Mach: Problems of Mechanism
6.6. Einstein, Bohr, Bohm: Signs of a New Era
7. Conclusion
Paul Feyerabend: Previously Unpublished Documents
Letter to Jack J. C. Smart, December 1963
Preparation (Request for a Sabbatical, 1977)
Report on 1980 Sabbatical
Bibliography
Index
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