Should Philosophers become Playwrights?

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 29 (1-4):451-457 (1986)
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Feyerabend has recently argued that the best way to deal with philosophical problems is through drama rather than through intellectual debate. This paper criticises his view and corrects it.

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Paul Feyerabend.John Preston - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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The theatre as an instrument of the criticism of ideologies.Paul K. Feyerabend - 1967 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 10 (1-4):298 – 312.

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