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      Decision-Based Epistemology: sketching a systematic framework of Feyerabend’s metaphilosophy

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          In this paper I defend the claim that Paul Feyerabend held a robust metaphilosophical position for most of his philosophical career. This position I call Decision-Based Epistemology and reconstruct it in terms of three key components: (1) a form of epistemic voluntarism concerning the justification of philosophical positions and (2) a behaviorist account of philosophical beliefs, which allows him (3) to cast normative arguments concerning philosophical beliefs in scientific methodology, such as realism, in terms of means-ends relations. I then introduce non-naturalist and naturalist variants of his conception of normativity, which I trace back to his mentors Viktor Kraft and Karl Popper, respectively. This distinction, introduced on the metaphilosophical level, can can be put to use to explain key changes in Feyerabend’s philosophical proposals, such as the viability of his methodological argument for realism. I conclude that this Decision-Based Epistemology should be further explored by historically embedding Feyerabend’s metaphilosophy in a voluntarist tradition of scientific philosophy.

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                Contributors
                daniel.kuby@uni-konstanz.de
                Journal
                Synthese
                Synthese
                Synthese
                Springer Netherlands (Dordrecht )
                0039-7857
                1573-0964
                27 November 2020
                27 November 2020
                2021
                : 199
                : 1-2
                : 3271-3299
                Affiliations
                GRID grid.9811.1, ISNI 0000 0001 0658 7699, Fachbereich Philosophie, , Universität Konstanz, ; Constance, Germany
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                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7779-7500
                Article
                2934
                10.1007/s11229-020-02934-3
                8602215
                3f88755e-e70b-4289-927f-74a9aba7d7e4
                © The Author(s) 2020

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                : 16 May 2020
                : 21 October 2020
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                Funded by: Austrian Science Fund (AT)
                Award ID: W1228-G18
                Funded by: FundRef http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001663, Volkswagen Foundation;
                Award ID: Project ”Forcing: Conceptual Change in the Foundations of Mathematics”
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                karl popper,viktor kraft,scientific philosophy,paul feyerabend,metaphilosophy,methodological rules,axiology,epistemic voluntarism,realism

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