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Feyerabend was born in Vienna, Austria.
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Upon completion of high school Feyerabend was drafted into the Reich Labour Service. The Arbeitsdienst was an army that was tasked with construction efforts during the war. They were also considered a defense force with the ability to be militarised. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend/
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Drafted into the Pioneer Corps of the German army. After basic training, volunteered for Officers' School. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend/
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This was the year that Paul learned of the death of his mother https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend/
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As Feyerabend retreated from Russian forces he received a bullet wound that damaged the spinal nerves and forced the use of a cane for the rest of his life. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend/
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This was the year that Paul received a fellowship for studying theatre, which included singing and stage operation. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend/
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Paul was hailed as "a raving positivist" when he published this article. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend/
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Paul returned to Vienna to continue his academic studies which consisted of sociology and history. This was not a long term thing due to the fact that he quickly transferred to physics. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend/
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Feyerabend visited the Austrian College of Society in which he worked as a secretary for multiple seminars which led him to meet Karl Popper and Walter Hollitscher. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend/
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Feyerabend met and married his first wife Edeltrud. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend/
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The "Kraft Circle" was a student philosophy club that was centered around Viktor Kraft. Kraft happened to be the supervisor who had been the lead on Feyerabend's dissertation. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend/
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Received doctorate in philosophy for his thesis on “basic statements” https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend/
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Feyerabend chose to study under Karl Popper as his supervisor for the scholarship from the British Council. This happened after Wittgenstein died which was his first choice. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend/
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Feyerabend summarized this book. Kidd, Ian James. “Paul Feyerabend , Against Method , 4th Ed . ( London : Verso , 2010 ). 296, Price $22.95 Pb. Paul Feyerabend , The Tyranny of Science , Ed. Eric Oberheim ( London : Polity , 2011 ). 153, Price $13.18 Pb.” Philosophical Investigations, vol. 36, no. 1, Jan. 2013, pp. 90–94, doi:10.1111/phin.12006. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2182211.pdf?seq=1
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Feyerabend translated Popper's article into German. Popper, Karl R. (Karl Raimund). The Open Society and Its Enemies. 7th ed., Routledge, 2002.
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Feyerabend was appointed a full-time lecturer at the University of Bristol, England. His summary of Philosophical Investigations had appeared.
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He married Mary O'Neill which was his second wife. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend/
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Gave a paper on the quantum theory of measurement to the Colston Research Symposium at the University of Bristol. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend/
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Feyerabend, Paul K. “On a Recent Critique of Complementarity: Part I.” Philosophy of Science, vol. 35, no. 4, Philosophy of Science Association, Dec. 1968, pp. 309–31, doi:10.1086/288226.
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Gave lectures on these papers at the University of California, Berkeley.
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This argued that all entities are hypothetical and introduced the concept of incommensurability.
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This critique summed up the point of view that Feyerabend had developed. It also introduced the position known as "eliminative materialism". https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend/
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Feyerabend's first book. The book stated there is no scientific method. https://youtu.be/kDwoGtPbO5w
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This article appeared which explored anarchism. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend/
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Feyerabend died in Genolier,Switzerland.
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