Feyerabend on art and science

Paul Feyerabend’s philosophy is replete with artistic metaphors. From theatre to literature, music and painting, the arts were used by Feyerabend not merely as decorative examples to showcase a form of contrived erudition, but as a coherent conceptual framework to articulate key methodological and epistemological questions. With a few isolated exceptions (Couvalis, 1987; Brown, 2009; Kidd, unpublished manuscript), philosophers of science have paid little attention to this intriguing and extremely fruitful aspect of Feyerabend’s work