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Life of Paul Feyerabend
Paul Feyerbend was born January 13th 1924, and passed away February 11th 1994. -
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Paul's Time in German Army
In these years Paul served in the German Army, and ended up being shot in the belly and hand causing nerve damage.
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The start of Paul's education
At this time in Paul's life, he had moved back to Vienna and started the study of History and Sociology, and later switched his degree to physics. Paul had an article called "the raving positivist" at this time also.
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Secretary of Seminars
Paul had become the Secretary of Seminars at the Australian College Seminar and met Karl Popper and Walter Hollitscher.
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Continuing His Education
Paul Had earned his doctorate in philosophy for his thesis on "basic statements". He had applied to work under Wittgenstein at Cambridge but unfortunately died before Paul arrived to England, so Paul chose Popper as his supervisor instead.
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Academic Career
At this time Paul took his first full time academic job as a philosophy lecturer at the University of Bristol, England. He wrote a summary on Wittgenstein's book Philosophical Investigations called The Philosophical Review.
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Moving to the US
Accepted a full time position at Berkeley, and applied for his Green card to work in the US.
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The Against Method
Paul wrote his first book Against Method, with the thesis of the book being that there is no such thing as the scientific method.
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