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Paul Feyerabend
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Against Method
Philosopher Paul Fererabend was a man considered to be "The worst enemy of science." Feyerabend, argued that scientific method was a well-defined procedure. Meaning that the progress of science or the growth of knowledge has no exception-free methodological rules governing it. Feverabend argued that science was only a stage of development of society. He challenged the idea that the results that science produced is what makes science, science and thats where it gains the name from. -
Science in a Free Society
After Against Method was released, controversy to the philosophy of science was created. Feyerabend continued on his work and extended his critique and ideology beyond just the problem of scientific rules and methods, but to the social functions and direction of science today as well. He also argues that the relationship between the government and science has ruined the democracy of science, or at least getting to that stage. -
Philosophy of Science 10 - Against Method
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXgIKGBJq4s Paul Feyerabend believed that there is no such scientific method, that every methodological rule that a philosophers came up with was later broken with a new hypothesis. Here is a link to part 1 of Paul Feyerabend and his against method. Here is also part 2 of the youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5MtcjXXbzU -
Citations
Preston, John. “Paul Feyerabend.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 24 Aug. 2020, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend/#AgaiMeth1970. Feyerabend, Paul. Against method. Verso, 1993. Feyerabend, Paul. Science in a free society. Verso Books, 2018.