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Who is Paul Feyerabend?
Paul Feyerabend was born into a middle- class Viennese family in 1924. Feyerabend’s went on and began to study science at the University of Vienna, then moved into philosophy for his doctoral thesis, he needed up making a name for himself both as an expositor and later as a critic of Karl Popper’s “critical rationalism”, and went on to become one of the twentieth century’s most famous philosophers of science. An imaginative maverick, he became a critic of philosophy of science itself. -
What is Feyerabend’s View of Science?
Sir Paul Feyerabend aligns more closely with Thomas Kuhn’s view that, any attempt to create a strictly rational account of scientific change will fall short of how science can and should work. Although, Feyerabend goes further than Kuhn to argue, science should have no “method” at all; for Feyerabend, the best, most productive science is a permanent state of crisis and revolution, where any creativity trumps any established theory or methodology. -
What is “Epistemological Anarchism”?
Epistemological Anarchism, is all about embracing the lack of any useful method or tradition with which we might use to define the field of science, and accepting the idea that full- on creativity and out- of- the- box thinking is the way to go. So, in more simple terms “anything goes”. In 1975 Feyerabend wrote a book called “Against Method”, in which he argues that science is an anarchic enterprise, not a customary one. -
