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Life Events
Born: January 13th, 1924, Vienna Austria
Died: February 11th, 1994, Genolier, Vaud, Switzerland (age 70)
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Joint-Project with Imre Lakatos
While attending the London School of Economics, Feyerabend met another front-line philosopher by the name of Imre Lakatos. The two planned on publishing a dialogue between the two of them with Lakatos defending a more conventional scientific method and allowing Feyerabend to pick it apart with his view of scientific anarchism. Unfortunately, Lakatos passed away before this could ever be completed.
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Shock to Science
Feyerabend, an Austrian born philosopher and teacher who is known for his iconic book "Against Method". This revealed Feyerabend's vision of science and the yearning for science to not be carried out by established set of progress hindering rules. This controversial vision for science was known as epistemological anarchism. Feyerabend was heavily criticized for his work and was even called "science's worst enemy" by other philosophers.
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Other Notable Work
After harsh criticism in response to "Against Method". Feyerabend thought it would be best to respond to his critics in writing. In his book "Science in a Free Society" he dedicated a section of the book to actually call out the criticizers and their inability to differentiate between comedic relief, argument and plain out fun. It was said that in the later years of his life, Feyerabend actually regretted writing "Against Method" due to it's backlash in the community and the toll it took on him. -
A Legacy for the Ages
Feyerabend's work was more than just a book, it was an ideology. His hope was that with a taste of scientific anarchism, science could flourish to it's true potential without a methodological set of rules to restrict scientist's activities and science as a whole. Although it was highly controversial and called "radical" by the scientific establishment, his intentions were pure in trying to take "leash" off science to reach it's maximum potential.
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Visual Learning for Paul Feyerabend in Modern Day
