Terence McKenna
c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…sort of question this search for truth. I studied philosophy from somebody some of you may have read or personally known, Paul Feyerabend, who was a wonderful philosopher of science and essentially an anarchist. He wrote a book called Against Method and he…
…sort of question this search for truth. I studied philosophy from somebody some of you may have read or personally known, Paul Feyerabend, who was a wonderful philosopher of science. And essentially an anarchist. He wrote a book called against method and he…
…have their fingerprints all over the entire thing. I mean you know the freudians, the positivists, Wittgenstein and his school and Eric Younge, Paul Feyerabend, all those anarchist people came out of u of v and he was part of it that's as far as I could…
…on. I mean when you start reading the philosophy of science and people like m ray lakatoshe and Karl Popper and Paul Feyerabend you just realize what we peasants think of as enormous battlements of adamantine rooted in truth are just the stuff German…
…about them in the simplest way possible and say: you know I had a professor actually some of you may have read his books, Paul Feyerabend and he used to say to us in epistemology 101, I'll teach you to recognize the truth and I'll teach you what's so…
…sort of question this search for truth. I studied philosophy from somebody some of you may have read or personally known, Paul Feyerabend, who was a wonderful philosopher of science and essentially an anarchist. He wrote a book called against method and he…
…if there's time maybe we can talk a little bit about what is so great about it. I had a philosophy professor once Paul Feyerabend some of you may know his books, and he opened his epistemology 101 course by saying: I'm going to teach you what truth…
…at each full moon but I was not mathematically inclined and when I was reading the philosophy of science and people like Paul Feyerabend and Imre Lakatos and reading the history of science and Thomas Kuhn and all of those people trying to understand you…
…zetetic and Microsoft and not concentrate on the new age exclusively. All of these institutions are extraordinarily improbable. You know Paul Feyerabend in a wonderful essay in his book against method points out that 95 of the scientists who have rejected…
…serve the golem of the truth in some weird way that makes the truth okay even if it kills you. I studied philosophy from Paul Feyerabend and he used to say at the beginning of his epistemology 101 course: I will teach you to recognize the truth and I…
…serve the golem of the truth in some weird way that makes the truth okay, even if it kills you. I studied philosophy from Paul Feyerabend and he used to say at the beginning of his epistemology 101 course: I will teach you to recognize the truth and I…
…this is a misuse of the word. Well, since then, evolutionary thinkers like c h Waddington, Eric Yonch, Wes Churchman, Paul Feyerabend, Erwin Laszlo have, I think by the sheer force and volume of their writings, overwhelmed this notion and reclaimed evolution…