Feyerabend,truth, and relativisms: Footnotes to the Italian debate |
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Authors: | Stefano Gattei |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Philosophy, 135 Baker Hall, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15217, USA;2. Department of Philosophy, Wichita State University, 1845 North Fairmount, Campus Box 74, Wichita, KS 67260-0074, USA |
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Abstract: | There is a substantial literature on Feyerabend's relativism—including a few papers in this collection—but fewer specific studies of the ways that his writings and ideas have been taken up among the non-academic public. This is odd, given his obvious interest in the lives and concerns of persons who were not ‘intellectuals’—a term that, for him, had a pejorative ring to it. It is also odd, given the abundance of evidence of how Feyerabend's relativism played a role in a specific national and cultural context—namely, contemporary Italian debates about relativism. This paper offers a study of how Feyerabend's ideas have been deployed by Italian intellectuals and cultural commentators—including the current Pope—and critically assesses them. |
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Keywords: | Feyerabend Relativisms Italy Catholic Church |
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