Frictionless philosophy: Paul Feyerabend and relativism (original) (raw)

Paul Feyerabend's most recent book, i written in dialogue form, introduces us to a group of students in a seminar 'at a well-known university' (p. 3) and their lecturer. Plato's Theaetetus, the text they're supposed to be studying, is used to raise a number of questions about the nature of knowledge and the issue of relativism. Feyerabend, one of our best-known relativists, moans that philosophers prefer to discuss other specimens such as Richard Rorty and Thomas Kuhn (p. 155). It ought to be interesting to see what he himself has to add to previous thought on the subject.