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Birth
Paul Karl Feyerabend was born on January 13, 1924, in Vienna, Austria. -
P.H.D. from University of Vienna
After WWII had ended, he started taking classes at Weimar Academy and eventually returned to Vienna to study history and sociology. Later, he grew bored and changed his studies toward physics. Then finally, he settled on the studies of philosophy, wherein in 1951, he earned his doctorate from the University of Vienna.
History of Paul Feyerabend -
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UC Berkeley
Feyerabend for the next three decades, he started working as a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. -
Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
Feyerabend's first published book. It is based on his arguments that science is an anarchic system. Feyerabend divides his argument into a critique on the belief that only a single methodology can produce scientific progress. Followed by a number of historical case studies, one of which was on Galileo and his advancements in heliocentric cosmology. -
Science in a Free Society
Science in a Free Society was another of his books he published. It was a continuation of his arguments portrayed in his first book, Against Method. This book focused on the primacy of science and the scientific method in a free society. -
The Tyranny of Science
It was written in 1993(about a year before his passing) but wasn't actually published until May 13, 2011. It challenged what he viewed on some modern ideas about science, such as believing the statement 'science is successful' is a myth. He argued that basic assumptions about science are false and that parts of scientific ideology were created based on generalizations that led to misconceptions about the nature of human life. -
His Passing
Paul Feyerabend retired in 1991. Just years later, he passed away after suffering from a brain tumor in 1994 at the Genolier Clinic, overlooking Lake Geneva, in Switzerland. YouTube - Paul Feyerabend Interview - 1993