Feyerabend’s Proposal

Joseph Agassi

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-06587-8_9

Feyerabend’s Proposal

Joseph Agassi^*

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Faculty of Humanities

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Abstract

Feyerabend declared the claim for the superiority of science an expression of cultural imperialism. This was but a teaser. He offered one unusual idea: legislation of a separation of science and state. The bandwagon effect of Bernard Shaw is the Matthew effect of Robert Merton. Its role is to keep establishments in power. Dislike for it raises Feyerabend’s popularity. His proposal to legislate a separation of science and state is in parallel to the proposal to separate church and state. That proposal is to limit the power of the church to the community; in parallel, the new proposal is to limit the power of the scientific establishment to the scientific community. The contrary idea of a state church should have as its parallel the idea of state science, as practiced in totalitarian regimes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Pages	67-76
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06587-8_9
State	Published - 2014

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Name	SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
ISSN (Print)	2211-4548
ISSN (Electronic)	2211-4556

Keywords

Bandwagon Effect
Ideal Type
Intellectual Leader
Matthew Effect
Religious Discrimination

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