Encouragements
摘要
My entanglements with P.F. began in 1981. I was working on the manuscript of my dissertation on the game-theoretical modeling of negotiation situations. It was intended to become a critique of the social-psychological experiment. In February 1981, H.M., one of my doctoral advisors and himself a critic of unrealistic experimental situations, returned my Marxist outpourings on comprehensive research processes with the remark, to the effect: “If you really want to read something good, then get yourself Feyerabend’s book ‘Against Method’.” Feierabend—Feyerabend: a name like that leaves its traces in memory. Especially since, at that time, a colleague from philosophy, when I asked who this Feyerabend was, replied: “He’s all about pluralism.” Some problems have something subversive about them. I believe P.F. enjoyed subversion. Gradually, I began to part with the “idea of a universal and stable method…”.