Paul Feyerabend (January 13, 1924 – February 11, 1994)

Retreat from the Red Army

1943

He had the rank as Lieutenant, and helping traffic when he was shot at and was hit by three bullets and one of them hit his spine, this led to him be paralyzed and decided to rest until the war was over.

Returned to Vienna and Studied History and Sociology

1948

After the war was over, he returned to Vienna to Study Sociology History, but he grew bored and eventually hated it, he then shifted over to physics, and later studied Philosophy, he described the views of Physiology as,"staunchly empiricist."

Traveled to the London School of Economics

1952

Feyerabend was offered a Scholarship under Wittgenstein, but he died before Feyerabend could travel to London, he then chose Karl Popper to study under after Wittgenstein died. After Feyerabend studied under Popper for a year or two, he returned to Vienna and hunted down some of Popper papers that he left in Vienna.

First Academic appointment at the University of Bristol

1955

This is where he started to work on being a professor, he gave lectures on the philosophy of science. He developed a view of science that is considered to be critical and, "Dadistic," and, "Anarchistic." (Image is not Paul Feyerabend, Used for Educational Purposes.)

Feyerabend Completed professorships and taught lessons

1971

Feyerabend traveled and taught lessons at the University of California, and other universities such as the University College in London, Berlin, and Yale. after that, he taught at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Feyerabend Retires in 1991

1991

Feyerabend retired in Zurich, Switzerland, according to John Preston, "In the early 1990s, Feyerabend worked up a course of lectures he had previously given in Berkeley into a series of five lectures entitled ‘What is knowledge? What is science?’."