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Paul Feyerabend
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Feyerabend Meets Karl Popper
Feyerabend meets Karl Popper at first meeting of the international summer seminar of the Austrian College Society in Alpbach. Here is where Feyerabend really started to get in to the philosophy of sciences and worked under Popper for a while before developing his own philosophy. Preston, John, "Paul Feyerabend", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2020 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2020/entries/feyerabend/. -
anarchistic philosophy of science
Anarchistic philosophy of science which Feyerabend outlines in his book against methods. Anarchistic philosophy argues that fallibility is not a set way of doing things as no theories are the same and are inconsistent. Basically what Feyerabend view and point with Anarchistic philosophy is there is no scientific method or rules and by following rules we are limiting activities and scientific progress. https://antimatter.ie/2011/02/13/the-philosophy-of-paul-feyerabend/ -
Rejecting scientific methods
At the beginning of Feyerabends career he defends falsificationism but later in his career he changes his views that there should not be any rules or specific methods for scientists to follow. This was a huge change of view points and quit frankly opposite view and now a big critic of falifcationism. Feyerabend had a big impact on the philiosophy of science community and not all agreed with him an he was even been call "the worst enemy of science" for his views. -
Scientific Rationalism
Feyerabend believed that there is no set rationality of science. He is know for his saying that "anything goes" when it comes to rationality and out lines this in his book "Fare Well to Reason" Nickles, Thomas, "Historicist Theories of Scientific Rationality", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2021 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2021/entries/rationality-historicist/.