Deals with the entrenched misunderstandings of Feyerabend's philosophy that have arisen through a lack of appreciation of the target of Feyerabend's criticisms. This book brings together the positive elements to be found in Feyerabend's work, and presents these elements as a coherent alternative conception of scientific rationality.

The second half of the book brings together the positive elements to be found in Feyerabend's work, and presents these elements as a coherent alternative conception of scientific rationality.

Fromt he contents:Preface. Introduction.- 1: Feyerabend's Reductio ad Absurdum of 'Rationalist' Philosophies.- 2: Feyerabend, Lakatos and Anarchism.- 3: Feyerabend's Incommensurability and the Pragmatic Theory of Observation.- 4: Feyerabend's Relativism.- 5: Feyerabend and Pluralism.- 6: Popper, Methodological Pluralism and Epistemic Values.- 7: Kuhn on Paradigms, Rules and Values.- 8: Tightrope-Walking Rationality: Feyerabend's Metanarrative.- 9: Feyerabend and World-Views.- References.- Index.