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Birth
Preston, John, "Paul Feyerabend", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2020 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2020/entries/feyerabend/. -
Met Karl Popper
During the international summer seminar of the Austrian College Society in Alpbach, Feyerabend met Karl Popper, who became his largest single influence according to John Preston.
Preston, John, "Paul Feyerabend", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2020 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2020/entries/feyerabend/. -
Doctoral Thesis “Zur Theorie der Basissätze”
The thesis covered “basic sentences”, or “protocol sentences”, which were the "foundations of scientific knowledge" according to logical positivists.
Preston, John, "Paul Feyerabend", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2020 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2020/entries/feyerabend/. -
Incommensurability
During Popper's LSE seminar presented ideas of incommensurability, which was poorly received by Hart, Von Wright and Popper.
Preston, John, "Paul Feyerabend", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2020 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2020/entries/feyerabend/. -
Against Method Article
Having left the falsificationists Feyerabend published an article attacking several accounts of scientific methodologies.
Preston, John, "Paul Feyerabend", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2020 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2020/entries/feyerabend/. -
Death of Lakatos
Feyerabend planned to write a debate volume with Lakatos in which he would attack Lakatos's case for the "rationalist" case that set rules of science made good science science. however with the death of Lakatos the rationalist portion was never finished.
Preston, John, "Paul Feyerabend", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2020 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2020/entries/feyerabend/. -
Against Method Video
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Against Method Book
Written instead of the joint effort with Lakatos, to whom Feyerabend dedicated Against Method to. Feyerabend describes the bok as a collage, which he used his previous words ordered, translated and replaced in an more outrageous way. He called the result "anarchism".
Preston, John, "Paul Feyerabend", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2020 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2020/entries/feyerabend/. -
Death
Preston, John, "Paul Feyerabend", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2020 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2020/entries/feyerabend/.