Finishing Feyerabend's Formative Years: Volumes 2 and 3

在费耶阿本德的成长岁月出版之后。第一卷。费耶阿本德和波普尔(斯普林格，2019)，这个项目的目的是通过另外两部专著来完成费耶阿本德的形成年集合：第二卷费耶阿本德，逻辑经验主义，博姆和库恩和第三卷费耶阿本德和波普尔学派。第二卷收集保罗·费耶阿本德早期未发表的论文和关于波普尔批判理性主义的反对者，如鲁道夫·卡尔纳普和逻辑经验主义者，以及大卫·博姆和托马斯·库恩的信件。它包含深入的、往往是多方的讨论，这些讨论跨越各种有趣的主题，从分析哲学和逻辑经验主义，到对量子力学的解释和库恩的历史方法。总体而言，这些文件是按时间顺序组织的，从费耶阿本德从学生到专业人士的转变开始，涵盖了他早期的智力发展，一直到他在20世纪60年代关于科学革命和不可通约的理论的有影响力的想法，以及科学哲学中的库恩式“历史转向”。第三卷收集了费耶阿本德与卡尔·波普尔批判理性主义学派的三位杰出成员：约瑟夫·阿加西(约瑟夫·阿加西，1954-1985)，约翰·沃特金斯(John Watkins，1960-1987)和伊姆雷·拉卡托斯(Imre Lakatos，1864-1967)的书信往来；以及1960年费耶阿本德最重要的论文《解释、还原和经验主义》(expline，Reductive and Experiicism，1962)的草稿。这些讨论揭示了费耶阿本德与以前的学生和波普尔哲学的支持者之间复杂而不稳定的关系，同时也揭示了一系列有争议的问题。对这两卷的介绍将把不同的材料置于背景中，并突出正在讨论的主要问题，一个广泛的编辑机构将提供关于所讨论的想法、事件、机构、文学和人物的丰富的背景信息。虽然已经收集和整理了两卷的主要材料(除了两个例外)，并已与OB 331/2-2的最后报告一起提交，但在完成两本书之前，仍需要进行大量的编辑工作，如该报告所述，并在下文第2.3节工作方案中作了更详细的说明。完成后，这两本额外的书籍将在由弗里德里希·斯塔德勒(维也纳)编辑的斯普林格维也纳圈研究所图书馆系列中出版。

Following the publication of Feyerabend’s Formative Years. Volume 1. Feyerabend and Popper (Springer, 2019), the aim of this project is to complete the Feyerabend’s Formative Years collection with two additional monographs: Volume 2. Feyerabend, Logical Empiricism, Bohm and Kuhn and Volume 3. Feyerabend and the Popperian School.Volume 2 collects Paul Feyerabend’s early unpublished papers and correspondences with and about opponents to Popper’s critical rationalism, such as Rudolf Carnap and logical empiricists, as well as David Bohm and Thomas Kuhn. It contains in-depth , often multi-party, discussions that vary across a variety of intriguing topics, from analytic philosophy and logical empiricism to interpretations of Quantum mechanics and Kuhn’s historical approach. On the whole, these documents are structured chronologically, and begin with Feyerabend’s transition from a student to a professional and cover his early intellectual development, through to his influential 1960s ideas about scientific revolutions and incommensurable theories and the Kuhnian ‘historical turn’ in philosophy of science.Volume 3 collects Feyerabend’s correspondence with three prominent members of Karl Popper’s critical rationalist school: Joseph Agassi (1954-1985), John Watkins (1960-1987) and Imre Lakatos (1864-1967); together with a 1960 draft of what became Feyerabend’s most important paper “Explanation, Reduction and Empiricism” (1962). The discussions reveal Feyerabend’s complex and fluid relation to fellow former students and proponents of Popper’s philosophy, while shedding light on a wide range of contentious issues. Introductions to both volumes will situate the diverse material in context and highlight the main issues under discussion, and an extensive editorial apparatus will provide a wealth of background information about the ideas, events, institutions, literature and people discussed. While the primary material for both volumes has already been collected and arranged (with two exceptions) and was already submitted with the final report for OB 331/2-2, substantial editorial work is still required before the two books are finished, as specified in that report and in much more detail in section 2.3 WORK PROGRAMME below. Upon completion, both additional books will be published in Springer’s Vienna Circle Institute Library series edited by Friedrich Stadler (Vienna).