Abstract

GARGHUO, María Teresa. El realismo normativo de Paul Karl Feyerabend y su defensa de la metafísica. Eidos [online]. 2015, n.23, pp.182-212. ISSN 1692-8857.  https://doi.org/10.14482/eidos.23.192.

At the end of the 50s and throughout the 60s, Feyerabend formulated his doctrine of theoretical proliferation. With this doctrine, he sought to emphasize the positive presence of metaphysics in the process of theoretical explanation. In particular, he claims to account for the impotence of any scientific theory for realistically explaining the world if it was not informed by some assumptions that his partners judge as non-scientific or pre-scientific. However, in order to specify the role of metaphysics in the process of theoretical explanation it is necessary to clarify what Feyerabend understands for realism. Among specialists there is a discussion about whether he defended a scientific realism or an anti-realism. In order to be able to understand in what sense Feyerabend holds that metaphysics provides access ways to explain the world, we will try to demonstrate the normative nature of his realism.

Keywords : Feyerabend; normative realism; theoretical proliferation; metaphysics.

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