Riffing on Feyerabend

Feyerabend’s work, particularly his early papers contain important insights into the nature of science and scientific progress. I discuss his insights into the limits of empiricist founda- tionalism and positivism. I explain how the work of a number of philosophers has borne out Feyerabend’s claims in startling and in- teresting ways. Nevertheless, I criticise Feyerabend’s move from his attack on universal method to relativism. I point out that Feyer- abend never confronted a well-developed research immanent view of the rationality of scientific change, wwhich shows the limitations of the arguments in Against Method.