Anarquismo epistemológico de Paul Feyerabend: alternativa para afirmação do pluralismo epistémico

Abstract

This monograph aims to reflect on epistemological anarchism as an alternative for affirming epistemic pluralism. This research is based on a critique of the epistemic stance of Western modernity, which sought to universalise principles and methods in the epistemic field, engendering methodological monism and epistemological ethnocentrism. This epistemic stance sought to place the West as the centre of knowledge and reason, culminating in epistemological monopolisation. However, in order to eradicate this epistemological epistemological violence, epistemological anarchism, an anarchic theory of knowledge, is used. knowledge, that is, the defence of the absence of authority in the epistemological sphere. This is the research problem: to what extent does the epistemological anarchism proposed by Paul Feyerabend constitute an alternative for affirming epistemic pluralism? The general aim of this research is to reflect on epistemological anarchism as an alternative for affirming epistemic pluralism. The theoretical framework of this monograph is based on Paul Feyerabend's epistemological anarchism, which takes shape in the author's works. The research method is a bibliographical review, supported by textual and comparative hermeneutics. Epistemological anarchism proposes the abandonment of methodological and theoretical monism, because this procedure leads to the uniformity of theories and, consequently, to epistemic monopolisation. Therefore, methodological pluralism should be adopted, a stance that leads to theoretical pluralism, making epistemological diversity possible. The structure of the work comprises three (3) chapters. (TRADUÇAO NOSSA)