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Feyerabend studies under Popper.
"A student who wanted to learn from Popper at the London School of Economics and traveled to England. Ignored everything but quantum mechanics and Wittgenstein. Researched Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations' typescript and wrote a synopsis. Made a friend in Joseph Agassi, another one of Popper's students" (Preston).
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Feyerabend's return to Vienna.
Feyerabend found himself back in Vienna. Popper requested a scholarship extension, but Feyerabend opted to remain in Vienna. Worked on a German translation of Popper's The Open Society and Its Foes. He was offered a position as Popper's research assistant but turned it down. Agassi is now working there. Feyerabend worked as Arthur Pap's research assistant in Vienna (Preston). -
Article: First article on quantum mechanics.
Feyerabend wrote many quantum mechanics philosophical pieces while studying with Popper. He argued in most of these books that the "Copenhagen Interpretation" of quantum theory shouldn't be so popular. Feyerabend was certain that this interpretation of the theory could not be proven to be a general solution to all microphysics issues or that its adherents had solid cause to assume it was unbeatable(Preston). -
First academic lecturing of philosophy.
At Bristol University, Feyerabend taught philosophy of science. In his autobiography (pp. 103–4), he wrote that Agassi helped him prepare for these lectures because Feyerabend never studied the subject(Preston). -
1958-1964 Time at the University of California at Berkely.
Feyerabend's most important early papers were published around this time. Influenced by Popper and Wittgenstein, Feyerabend vigorously criticized the then-orthodox science philosophies of Vienna Circle descendants like Rudolph Carnap, Feigl, Nagel, and Hempel. This critique examined observation-theory relationships(Preston).
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Freyerabend seminar at Alpbach.
Feyerabend and Feigl led a seminar on recent analytic philosophy. Feyerabend believed philosophy was worthless unless it contributed to knowledge growth(Preston). -
Lectured on church dogma.
During the summer of 1966, Feyerabend talked at Berkeley about the church's beliefs. "Why church dogma? Because the growth of church dogma is similar to the growth of scientific thought in many ways" (Preston)."Paul Feyerabend images - Bing images." https://www.bing.com/images/search? Accessed 1 Jan. 1970. -
Paper Written, "Classical Empiricism"
"He argued that empiricism shared certain problematic features with protestantism"(Preston).
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Feyerabend book of essays; Farewell to Reason.
The message of this publication is that relativism is the solution to the issues of conflicting beliefs and ways of life. Feyerabend was a thorn in the side of more than a few in the scientific community. He seems to be loud and obnoxious(Preston)."Paul Feyerabend images Farewell to reason - Bing images." https://www.bing.com/images/search? Jan. 1970. -
Feyerabend leaves California for Switzerland and Italy.
With this move and rediscovering a suicide note of his mother's, Feyerabend began to write his autobiography. At this time, he and his wife began to make efforts to have children(Preston). -
Lectures; 'What is knowledge? What is science'?
These lectures were edited and published by Eric Oberheim as a book 'The Tyranny of Science' (Feyerabend),
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Feyerabend's conclusion, autobiography.
Feyerabend worked on his autobiography all the way up until his last day February 11th, 1994. On the final page of his autobiography, he communicated that what should remain of him would be "not papers, not final declarations, but love"(Preston).
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The ethics of Paul Feyerabend
Feyerabend's criticisms went far beyond "limited and dogmatic" or Popper. He didn't like the idea of a scientific methodology, whether it was Popperian or not; he used historical examples to show that scientists don't use such "methodologies"(Conifold).
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References
https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/40671/did-paul-feyerabend-ever-develop-some-alternative-useful-and-viable-philosophy
"Paul Feyerabend (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)." https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend/, Accessed 1 Jan. 1970.
