Critical Notice: Conquering Feyerabend’s Conquest of Abundance*Paul Feyerabend, The Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction vs. the Richness of Being. Chicago: University of Chicago Press , xviii + 285 pp. ISBN 0–226–24533–0, $27.00 [Book Review]

Philosophy of Science 69 (3):519-535 (2002)
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