In a letter to Lakatos, Feyerabend expresses his envy for Lakatos’s “attractive” assistants and secretaries. These letters are getting harder and harder to read 
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All the sexism aside, smt that comes across clearly from Feyerabend’s writing is his extreme awareness and close monitoring of self-righteousness that derails his rational thinking. He wants to be deeply critical but not righteous. An exercise many scientists can benefit from.
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And apparently he didn’t always succeed at this and hence he got this letter from Lakatos in response to one of his papers. In other words, Lakatos is having a “tone debate” with Feyerabend, and I’m loving it!pic.twitter.com/bTrcqm0LIs
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Oh no not again
This time it’s Lakatos! Two grown up intellectual men in their forties writing to each other in eight-grader language.pic.twitter.com/lFdC2GWh4P
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This was from my review of that correspondence, circa 1999:pic.twitter.com/qSYaQGtHxX
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Rather put me off Lakatos, who until then had been something of a philosophical hero!
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Indeed quite offputting to read how regularly this juvenile, sexist banter had been going on between them. Quite cringeworthy and infuriating.
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Replying to @zerdeve @mary_leng
It's really gross. Especially since it genuinely undercuts women is science so much.
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Hmmm. Really disappointed to see you're a TERF though.
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