A brilliant Austrian philosopher. Trained in physics and astronomy, he wrote about sloppiness in science, and new insights that are only reluctantly accepted by it. Writer of the classic AgainstMethod, (ISBN: 0860916464 ). Taught at CalBerkeley for many years. Died in 1994.
His autobiography is named KillingTime (ISBN: 0226245322 )
Books by Paul Feyerabend
- AgainstMethod (ISBN: 0860916464 )
- FarewellToReason
- KnowledgeWithoutFoundations
- ProblemsOfEmpiricism
- ThreeDialoguesOnKnowledge
- ConquestOfAbundance
- ScienceInaFreeSociety
- KillingTime
Feyerabend Quotes
"Given any rule, however �fundamental� or �necessary� for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to adopt its opposite." -- PaulFeyerabend
Mengele applauds.
"The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education." -- PaulFeyerabend
So he negates his own position?
Feyerabend Links
- http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend
- http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/feyerabe.htm
- http://bravus.port5.com/pkfdex.html -- Feyerabend Forum
See also ThomasKuhn TheFeyerabendProject FeyerabendOnSoftware MethodologicalPluralism
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