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Paul Feyerabend was born January 13, 1924 in Vienna, Austria
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In the year 1957, Paul Feyerabend started writing papers that claiming that science needed to utilized realism in order to further its advancements. Paul Feyerabend's influence reached as far as Thomas Kuhn and Richardd Rorty. To further understand Paul, please view the following educational YouTube video:
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In 1975, Paul Feyerabend finished his most articulated and eventful piece, Against Method. In this piece, Paul claimed that there is "no such thing as the scientific method".
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In 1978, Paul wrote Science in a Free Society, in which he he refuted the people who reviewed his work of Against Method, claiming that they had misread/misinterpreted his writing. Paul believed he had undermined sciences view on culture, and refuted the scientific method. C. Fred Alford Epistemological Relativism & Political Theory: The Case of Paul K. Feyerabend, Polity 18, no.22 (Nov 2016): 204–223.
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Paul Feyerabend formed a series of lectures that combined his prior lectures, as well as his prior writings. These lectures were then edited and published by Eric Oberheim into a book called Thee Tyranny of Science. The surmounting theme of the book was that science was not a "monolith", but a series of ununified voices, and about how flawed philosophical claims about science were.
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Paul Feyerbend's death was on February 11, 1994 in Switzerland. After his death, it has been proclaimed that Paul Feyerbend was sciences "worst enemy" due to his position and viewpoints.