Understanding Feyerabend on Galileo

In 1990, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger used Feyerabend's analysis of Galileo to illustrate modernism's complacency about science. Feyerabend had used Galileo's writings to illustrate some limitations of empirical science. He claimed further that Galileo practised `counterinduction' t...

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Main Author: Hickey, Thomas J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2009
In: Irish theological quarterly
Year: 2009, Volume: 74, Issue: 1, Pages: 89-92
Further subjects:B Ratzinger
B counterinduction
B Feyerabend
B Galileo
B McMullin
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Summary:In 1990, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger used Feyerabend's analysis of Galileo to illustrate modernism's complacency about science. Feyerabend had used Galileo's writings to illustrate some limitations of empirical science. He claimed further that Galileo practised `counterinduction' to create a new observation language.
ISSN:1752-4989
Contains:Enthalten in: Irish theological quarterly
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0021140008098846