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Paul Feyerabend was born in Vienna where he attended primary and high school
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From 1939 to 1945 Paul Feyerabend is drafted into the German Army. He serves as an enlisted and an officer and is shot three times during the German Retreat
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Feyerabend attends a meeting of the Internation Summer Seminar of the Austrian College Society, here is the first time he meets Karl Popper. Feyerabend will work for Popper and is influenced by his theories; however, their relationship turns tumultuous later in Feyerabend's career. Popper and Feyerabend's correspondence was later compiled into a book to outline the ups and downs of the relationship -
Beginining in 1957 Feyerabend published a series of papers arguing that science needs realism in order to progress and that positivism would stump such progress. This approach followed in line with Feyerabend's teacher Karl Popper.
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This is the first time that Feyerabend argued against positivism and instead for a scientific realist account of the relationship between experience and theory. It was at this point that Feyerabend created the "Stability Thesis", the basis of this idea was that even major changes in theory will not the meanings of the terms in the scientific observation language.
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In two papers published in 1963 he defends the idea of materialism. Materialism was the view that everything that exists is physical. He was an intergral part of the development of a radical position that the "mind that holds that our ordinary, common-sense understanding of the mind is false"
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In this book, one of his most famous he defended against the idea that science does not follow methodological rules. He was highly critical of the "consistency theory" and Popper's falsification theor, Lakatos philosophy was referred to as "anarchism in disguise". Ultimately he described himself as an "epistemological anarchist".
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In 1992 an asteroid in the main belt was named after Paul Feyerabend.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUtzWMh1fro&t=28s
In this video Paul Feyerabend describes his career, how he arrived to his ideas and theories, and major events that influenced him. -
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