people are forever deciding that what makes sense to them is what's natural and the complications seeping around the edges of it are unnatural, a betrayal, perversity, why we can't have nice things i'd get mad at how dumb it is except it's obviously natural that they'd do that
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Have you read any Paul Churchland? Have I asked you this before?
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i have not, but there's a copy of Matter and Consciousness on my to-read stack as a result of you and/or others asking me that before
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It's a good introduction to his work, but it's also an undergraduate philosophy textbook. I adore his 1979 monograph Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind, it's equally short and equally lucid, and spells out an early form of his semantic theory in detail.
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But since he has written a lot of stuff since then, and worked hard on it, it would be criminal of me not to mention Plato's Camera. It's not as short as SR&tPoM, but summarizes much of his later work that the earlier works can't even mention.
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Finally, if you've ever had any interest in Feyerabend's epistemological anarchism at all, Churchland wrote a paper relating his own work to Feyerabend's. I will happily look up the citation for you if you're interested: I own a copy of a collection that includes it.
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i mostly view Feyerabend as a self-indulgent jerk, but on the other hand i love Mage: the Ascension, and it's basically Paul Feyerabend: The Role-Playing Game (cc
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I read the first half of his most famous book, and learned enough to be impressed with the Churchland paper I mentioned, but basically got impatient with Feyerabend's self-indulgence. Later, I met a woman who had been a student of his at Berkeley.
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She didn't talk shit about him, she praised him. And you know, Feyerabend had a difficult life. It's unpleasant to be born into circumstances in which you get drafted into a Nazi army and have to fight in and get wounded in WW2 on the wrong side.
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oof yeah, that's gonna leave a mark
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When I say "met", I mean someone I know through various internet means, who made this claim on twitter.
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So who knows about Feyerabend? As far as I'm concerned, Churchland's paper crowing about being Kepler to Feyerabend's Tycho is enough to establish F's reputation with me.
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