"Pseudoscience after Feyerabend": Ian James Kidd in conversation with Chiara Ambrosio

Renowned philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend famously defended astrology, voodoo, witchcraft, Chinese traditional medicine, and other “non-scientific” beliefs, practices, and traditions. It is partly for these defences that, during the 1970s, Feyerabend became famous – or, rather, infamous – and they contributed to his now established image as an “epistemological anarchist” and “the worst enemy of science”.

In this event, Ian James Kidd and Chiara Ambrosio use Feyerabend as a starting point for thinking through many of the key epistemological, ontological, metaphysical, political, and ethical questions raised by pseudoscience. They also explore why pseudoscience became a topic in the history of philosophy of science and how it relates to newer insights into scientific pluralism.

This event is the first in a new mini-series exploring pseudoscience in our time. The series is supported by the Challenging Pseudoscience group at the Royal Institution in London with funding from the Open Society Foundations.

Ian James Kidd is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. He is interested in intellectual virtue and vice, the nature of a religious life, illness and mortality, misanthropy, and South and East Asian philosophies.
Website: https://ianjameskidd.weebly.com

Chiara Ambrosio is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London. Her research interests include the relations between art and science, American Pragmatism and the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, scientific discovery, and general issues in philosophy of science, with a particular focus on scientific representations.
Academic Homepage: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/people/dr-chiara-ambrosio

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