Feyerabend's Natural Philosophical Thought Research

Feyerabend should be one of the most controversial philosophers in the field of contemporary philosophy of science.His opposition methods,farewell to reason,anarchist epistemology and other ideas have attracted wide attention and aroused heated discussion and debate;on the contrary,his natural philosophy thought is rarely concerned.It was not until the publication of Philosophy of Nature(2004)that Feyerabend's philosophy of nature was presented in a more complete and clear form.The birth of Feyerabend's natural philosophy is not only closely related to the severe ecological crisis,but also has a profound origin with the revival of holism in the 20 th century and the rise of mythological research.In Natural Philosophy,he criticizes a series of dual opposites,such as the opposition between science and humanity,the opposition between intuition and thinking and the opposition between subject and object,and tries to reconstruct the history of human view of nature.Based on the interpretation of ancient Greek mythology,Feyerabend showed us the early ancient Greece as a "linkage device nature ".But when the "nature of the linkage device" changed to "the nature of the abstract collection ",it became an abstract entity and a collection of principles without emotional color,and man was excluded from the collection.Feyerabend advocates the establishment of a new philosophy of nature based on organic theory,which does not pursue universal,inevitable and deterministic knowledge of nature,nor does it deal strongly with the surrounding environment,nor does it abandon the diversity of nature and the richness of human nature.Of course,Feyerabend's natural philosophy needs to be viewed dialectically.On the one hand,Feyerabend overemphasizes the role of mythology and other non-scientific cultures,wrongly equating science with non-science,and is suspected of falling into an absolute relativism mire;on the other hand,The holism,organic theory and pluralistic methodology contained in Feyerabend's natural philosophy are worth pondering and learning by modern people.His criticism of the abstract view of nature successfully evokes our thinking about the relationship between man and nature.It is of great significance to restore the diversity of man and nature and enrich our understanding and understanding of nature and the universe.