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...
| Published in: | Irish theological quarterly |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2009
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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. |
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| ISSN: | 1752-4989 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Irish theological quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0021140008098846 |