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Feyerabend gets drafted into the Pioneer Corps of the German Army
April 4th 1942 marks the day Feyerabend was drafted into the German Army. Upon completion of basic training he remained from the front-line and stayed inland to complete monotonous tasks such as digging trenches, just to refill them. Once growing tired of these meaningless chores, he volunteered for officers school as to remain from frontline for the duration of training (Preston). -
Paul Feyerabend meets Karl Popper
Paul Feyerabend lived an immense life prior to his embarkment into the discipline of philosophy. He originally developed his understandings of the field of STEM in physics. Feyerabend never really began studying philosophy until the age of 23, where he met key influences such as Popper and Hollistcher (Preston). -
Influential Publications
In 1957 Feyerabend worked as a proffessor at the University of Berkeley. It was this institution where he published two of host most influential works of his early career, "An Attempt at Realistic Interpretation of Experience and "Complimentary". Both works were largely inspired by Poppers famous Falsification where he attests against positivism and the other correlating the importance of experience within scientific inquiry (Preston). -
Feyerabend's Most Famous Publication
In the year 1970 Feyerabend published his most influential work to date "Against Method". Freyerabend for years "flown the falsification coop" and in this work he would make his own perspective on scientific method. In this article Feyerabend attacks several accounts of scientific methodology, in the next few years he followed up this article with a debate volume alongside Lakatos titled "For and Against Method" where Lakatos is for and Feyerabend is against (Preston). -
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All Things Come to an End
As Paul Feyerabend became ever more aware of his own mortality he began working on an autobiography, reflecting on the immense condensed life that he once lived. Feyerabend passed away on February 11th of 1994 at the result of an inoperable brain tumor. His efforts toward his autobiography paid off and it was published in the year 1995 (Preston).
