Paul Feyerabend and the New Trend in Explaining Scientific Progress

Abstract

The epistemological thesis adopted by Paul Feyerabend is the “epistemology of methodological and epistemological pluralism,” which means not adhering to fixed, comprehensive, and historical standards and rules. Therefore, his scientific project will have a chaotic nature that does not recognize the existence of a specific and single approach to science. It is considered that science is an existing project that develops on the basis of methodological pluralism, on the basis that a single view of science leads to the stifling of thinking, while cognitive pluralism leads to diversity in thinking methods and opens the way for creativity, which contributes to the progress of science.

Thus rejecting the discriminatory nature of science based on an axiom based on the fact that Western science is the only standard that has priority and distinction, and that it is the assessor of other non-Western civilizations and knowledge, Science is like all other cognitive activities, because acknowledging the right to cognitive difference, in a space that accommodates all human traditions, “art,” “religion,” and “myth,” also has an effective role in the development and evolution of scientific thought.