The cosmological divergent proliferation in Feyerabend's pluralism

Garcia da Silva Oliveira, Deivide (2021) The cosmological divergent proliferation in Feyerabend's pluralism.

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In this paper, I argue that Feyerabendian proliferation is best understood as cos-mologically divergent proliferation. The divergent aspect is inspired by a Darwinian back-ground, and it affects other elements of Feyerabend’s philosophy, as much as the way hispluralism advances, like the cosmological dimension. This cosmological item influences notonly how theories should proliferate — divergently - but also why they must be tenaciouslyretained and compared. On this account, we underline Feyerabend’s view that the principle ofproliferation is never alone; instead, it is always coupled with the principle of tenacity. Thisis the reason we take these two principles as two sides of the same coin. Moreover, whenapproaching tenacity, we discuss three aspects of tenacity (attractiveness, fruitfulness, andretainment) under two forms of how they are related to the cosmologically divergent pro-liferation. First, working on many cosmologies, allowed by proliferation, to develop them.Second, retaining all theories by what we name as the practical suspension or setback. Asa result, we argue that such an approach, divergent pluralism, is an adequate way for understanding Feyerabend’s pluralism and a clear way of avoiding misunderstandings of his view.

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