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Lifespan of Paul Feyerabend
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Published book "Against Methods"
Feyerabends book "Against Methods" was arguably his most popular and influential to the philosophy of science community. In this book he argued that scientists are methodological opportunists and should not limit themselves to the scientific method. He argued that scientists often pushed the scientific method aside when research did not meet the criteria to use it. It was Feyerabends ideology that there is no set of rules or methodology that the community would be able to follow as a whole. -
Published Book "Science in a Free Society"
Feyerabend published his book "Science in a Free Society" after his first book "Against Methods". This book addressed many critics and questions from his first book and its political ramifications. Feyerabend had strong beliefs that science and the state should be separate and experts in politics should be questioned more. -
Published book "Farewell to Reason"
In Feyerabends book "Farewell to Reason" he discusses many topics such as how the general public tend to take everything scientists say as fact. He further goes on to explain how "experts" in certain fields are glorified to know it all when that is simply not the case. -
Published book "The Tyranny of Science"
Feyerabend published "The Tyranny of Science" shortly after his passing and it is arguably one of his most influential books. In his book he goes on to explain how science is ununified in nearly every way. In order to progress as a society we need to unify our knowledge.