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Paul Feyerabend Jan 1924-Feb 1994
Paul Feyerabend was against a standardized scientific method. He argued that science is a form of creativity and should not be bound in how someone can come up with their ideas. If looking from a historical stand point than some discoveries would not have been made using a modern scientific methods way of thinking. -
Paul Feyerabend Jan 1924-Feb 1994
He himself use to be pro-method until the free speech movement at University of California in the first half of the 1960s. Where he realized who was he to tell people how to think and how to come up with ideas. He believed that whatever method worked for you is best weather it be a mathematical, logical or imperial view. -
Paul Feyerabend Jan 1924-Feb 1994
Feyerabend did agree with some ideas of his contemporaries such as Kuhn with his paradigms. He agreed with the fact that the lenses in which the person is thinking will affect the theory in which they are trying to formulate. Feyerabend's own books are much harder to understand than Kuhn because he is a self prolclaim anarchist and tries to sway with other things besides just facts. His controversial ideas got an article in nature saying he was the worst enemy of science. -
Paul Feyerabend Jan 1924-Feb 1994
His books such as Against method in 1975 was not apricated in his time but more modern thinking has shown he may have been correct about his ideas. Here is a you tube video to help learn about his life. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oovqaJSOVLc)
Cited
Feyerabend, Paul. Against method: Outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge. Verso Books, 2020.