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“An Attempt at a Realistic Interpretation of Experience”
In Feyerabend's publication “An Attempt at a Realistic Interpretation of Experience”, one of his earliest writings, he argued against the view of positivists saying that there are no concrete social rules that control people's social behavior. Instead, he agreed with Popper's falsificationism principle that not everyone functions the same, and we must research whether these rules affect everyone in the same ways or at all. -
Epistemological Anarchism
Feyerabend's theory that goes with the Against Theory is Epistemological Anarchism. This theory revolves around the idea that science and the obtainment of knowledge should have no formation. The authority threatening this anarchism is the rigidity of empiricists on scientific validity. Feyerabend argues that there should be a formless and rule-free environment in which to expand knowledge. If you want a method then use it, but anarchism states you don't need anything but your mind and passion. -
Against Method
Paul Feyerabend noticed that instead of scientists using the Popperian method for scientific discovery, they were not using any actual method. This allowed him to come up with the idea that there should be no method at all, ever. Much of what has gotten us to this place in science is trying new and weird out-of-the-box tricks to epistemic endeavors. This made Feyerabend create the Against Method, encouraging the non-use of the scientific method in experiments and research. -
The Tyranny of Science
One of Feyerabend's last writings which was published after his death in 1994, was a collection of information from a series of lectures he gave at Berkley. The main concept in this book is Feyerabend's disagreement that science is seen as a united worldview. Science is greatly incomplete and people have intensely different opinions and observations. He argues scientific materialism, stating we do not need only science to tell us what is real and fact. Observation can do that too. (ex.Realism).