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Paul Karl Feyerabend

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born

January 13, 1924 in Vienna, Austria

died

February 11, 1994

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male

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Philosophy

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John Stuart Mill, Doris Lessing, Karl Popper, G.E.M. Anscombe, Ludwig ...more

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Paul Karl Feyerabend was an Austrian-born philosopher of science best known for his work as a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked for three decades (1958–1989).

His life was a peripatetic one, as he lived at various times in England, the United States, New Zealand, Italy, Germany, and finally Switzerland. His major works include Against Method (published in 1975), Science in a Free Society (published in 1978) and Farewell to Reason (a collection of papers published in 1987). Feyerabend became famous for his purportedly anarchistic view of science and his rejection of the existence of universal methodological rules. He is an influential figure in the philosophy of science, and also in the sociol...more

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Average rating: 4.09 · 611 ratings · 50 reviews · 31 distinct works

	Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge 4.04 avg rating — 369 ratings — published 1977 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Killing Time: The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend 4.15 avg rating — 53 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Farewell to Reason 4.09 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1987 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction versus the Richness of Being by Paul Karl Feyerabend, Bert Terpstra (Editor) 4.09 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Three Dialogues Knowldge 4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1991	My rating:
	Science In A Free Society 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Tyranny of Science 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Problems of Empiricism: Volume 2: Philosophical Papers 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1985 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Realism, Rationalism and Scientific Method: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Dialogo Sul Metodo by Paul Karl Feyerabend, R. Corvi (Translator) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.”
― Paul Karl Feyerabend

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“Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives.”
― Paul Karl Feyerabend, Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge

tags: epistemological-anarchism , inspirational , philosophy-of-science , science

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“All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards.”
― Paul Karl Feyerabend, Farewell to Reason

tags: abstraction , goodness , religion

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