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Paul Feyerabend youth
Paul Karl Feyerabend, born in Vienna to a working class family during at extremely troublesome time (after the First World War). In school, he took an interest in scholastic's just as theater expressions. In the wake of finishing secondary school he was drafted at an exceptionally youthful age to serve in the German Army. -
After the War
After the Second World War, Feyerabend proposed to study history at the University of Vienna yet was attracted to physics and theoretical physics. While at the Austrian College Society, he met Karl Popper and started his excursion to his numerous works and intelligent lessons. Even though he discovered delight in expressions of the human experience, he stayed with philosophy which helped shape it into what we know it as today. -
The "Against Method"
When Feyerabend distributed the article "Against Method" in 1970 it tested numerous scientific methods, which caused a stir and constrained individuals to consider the historical backdrop of our systems. Presenting epistemological anarchism (that there is no one scientific method that is true, but there are many or "anything goes") this brought a lot of strain, yet in addition, captivated many examining philosophers, scientist and professors.
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For and Against Method and Death
For and Against Method was supposed to be an artful culmination that was to piggyback off of "Against Method." It was a joint exertion between both Feyerabend and Lakatos that was going to go about as a contention between the two. There Lakatos would raise "legitimate" scientific methods and Feyerabend would disprove forcefully. Shockingly, Lakatos kicked the bucket and the work was never finished. -
Political consequences of Epistemological Anarchism
Feyerabend saw himself destabilizing the arguments for science's position within culture, and much of his later work was a critique of the position of science within Western societies. Because there was no scientific method, he could not justify science as the best way of acquiring knowledge, but it is inherently superior only for those who have already decided in favor of a certain ideology, or who have accepted it without ever having examined its advantages and its limits. -
"Last Interview"
Attached is Feyerabend's final interview conducted in 1993, before he passed away on February 11th 1994 overlooking Lake Geneva. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDwoGtPbO5w -
Works Cited
Lakatos, Imre, and Paul Feyerabend. For and Against Method: Including Lakatos's Lectures on Scientific Method and the Lakatos-Feyerabend Correspondence, edited by Matteo Motterlini, University of Chicago Press, 1999., pp. 113-118. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/apus/detail.action?docID=648117. Preston, John. “Paul Feyerabend.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 21 Sept. 2016, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend/#AgaiMeth1970
