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Paul Feyerabend is Born
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Paul Feyerabend's Life
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Paul Feyeramend Goes to War
Paul Feyerabend gets Drafted is forced to fight on the front lines in Russia and is ultimately shot 3 times and is forced to walk with a cane the rest of his life. -
Paul Feyerabend Disagrees with Falsifiability
Paul Feyerabend determines that Karl Popper's theory on Falsifiability does not fit science accurately. He states that it cannot distinguish pseudoscience from actual real science—legitimate science in his eyes. Work Cited
Peter Godfrey-Smith. Theory and Reality : An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science. University of Chicago Press, 2003. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip&db=nlebk&AN=324622&site=ehost-live&scope=site. -
Againist Method! Paul Feyerabend's Book!
At this time Paul Feyerabend published his book Against Method, where he focused and challenged the ideas of there only being one way to do science. He stated that most scientific breakthroughs often occurred from unconventional means. Work Cited
Peter Godfrey-Smith. Theory and Reality : An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science. University of Chicago Press, 2003. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip&db=nlebk&AN=324622&site=ehost-live&scope=site. -
Anything Goes
Paul Feyerabend states that it is important to challenge the status quo because although something is widely accepted that does not mean it is correct. Hence the term "anything goes" came about meaning do what must be done to stand by your beliefs and look outside of the normal procedures. https://youtu.be/UbDM5Wnvqh0?si=ipHZc9V3gdUMDuME -
The Worst Enemy of Science
Paul Feyerabend was labeled the worst enemy scientist in a news article from 1987 because when he wrote Against Method he had to go at it from an anarchist mindset. This lead to people to believe that he was trying to spout fake news. It wasn't till several years later that people and fellow scientists started to rethink this and get to the true meaning of the book Against Method. https://youtu.be/oovqaJSOVLc?si=sR9lzpUc8RT7oi4z -
Paul Feyerabend's Final Book
Just weeks before Paul Feyerabend death his autobiography was published in this book he writes about his different experiences that shaped him into a man and a philosopher. He focuses not on the intellecutal but on the overall experiences of his life with people liek Karl Popper, and Imre Lakatos. Works Cited Hacking, Ian. “Killing Time: The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend . Paul K. Feyerabend.” Isis, vol. 87, no. 2, 1996, pp. 334–35, https://doi.org/10.1086/357492.