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Birth of Paul Freyerband
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University of California, Berkeley
Feyerabend was the Professor of Philosophy for 3 decades. Near the end of his ten-year he split his time between Berkeley and ETH Zurich. He gave lectures on the philosophy of science and his rejection of the dogmatic rules. -
Against Method
Paul's most notable work. "Against method" is his arguments to Lakatos for the Scientific method. In his interview in 1993 (attached video) Paul describes these arguments as they were meant to be overly strong against scientific methods. In this book is where Feyerabend gives rise to the "anything goes" or epistemological anarchism. He feels as thought science started as liberating it became rule based and unimaginative. -
Book "Science in a Free Society"
In this book Paul argues against his criticism from "Against Method". Feyerbend had seen his works undermining science's privileged position within culture, leading to depression and leading to his later works critiquing its position within Western society. -
Paul Feyerabend Interview
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Death of Paul Feyerabend
Brain tumor that was inoperable took his life.