Paul Feyerabend

AnythingGoes

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 )

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Books by Paul Feyerabend

• AgainstMethod (ISBN 0860916464 )
• FarewellToReason?
• KnowledgeWithoutFoundations?
• ProblemsOfEmpiricism?
• ThreeDialoguesOnKnowledge?
• ConquestOfAbundance?
• ScienceInaFreeSociety?
• KillingTime?

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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?

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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

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See also ThomasKuhn TheFeyerabendProject FeyerabendOnSoftware MethodologicalPluralism

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