The worst enemy of science: clarifying polemics issues on Paul Feyerabend’s Epistemology in teacher training

• Main Authors: Felipe Damasio, Luiz O. Q. Peduzzi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2015-03-01
• Series: Investigações em Ensino de Ciências
• Subjects: : Feyerabend; epistemological anarchism; anything goes; teacher training
• Online Access: http://www.if.ufrgs.br/ienci/artigos/Artigo_ID385/v20_n1_a2015.pdf

Many of the objections to Feyerabend's epistemology arise from misinterpretations of ideas by this author. Terms and expressions as epistemological anarchism, irrationality, control of science and anything goes can give the false impression that the author's arguments are chaotic and unsustainable. This paper discusses these concepts, opposing the misconceptions about them. In initial and continuing teacher education, this reflection can be useful both for the deconstruction of certain misleading images about the nature of science and for the upbringing of critical citizens acquaintated to the concepts of modern philosophy of science.