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Early life (1924)
Paul Feyerabend was born in 1924 in Vienna, Austria. While in high school he developed an interest in stage acting and singing. After high school he was drafted into the German Arbeitsdienst. Feyerabend then joined the German army as an officer serving from 1943 until he was injured, at which point he healed from his wounds until the end of the war. -
Post war (1945)
After the war Paul Feyerabend found a job as a playwright in Apolda. After turning a down an offer for a job at the East Berlin State Opera Feyerabend returned to Vienna to study history and sociology at the University of Vienna. Feyerabend became bored and changed his focus to physics then philosophy. he earned his doctorate in 1951. -
Against Method (1975)
Against Method is the most important work of Feyerabend's career and is largely unorthodox, sometimes described as "epistemological anarchism." In it, Feyerabend develops a kind of relativism that seeks to undermine the dominance that traditional scientific thought holds in western culture. He envisions a science without constraint in which new theories are constantly formulated to challenge established ones, without regard for any sort of guiding system or rules. (Godfrey-Smith, 2003) -
Death (1994)
Paul Feyerabend died in 1994 leaving behind a legacy of unconventional thought that challenged the status quo of the philosophy of science. -
Citation
Feyerabend, Paul. Against Method. London: Verso, 1993. Print
