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Birth
Born in Vienna in the aftermath of the first world war -
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World War II
After high-school joined the Arbeitsdienst, a sort of militarized labor work force introduced to combat unemployment. After avoiding front-line fight was sent to the Russian front 1944 then to Poland in 1945 where he was temporarily paralyzed and spent the rest of the war in a hospital. After the German surrender he described the war as "an interruption, a nuisance; I forgot about it the moment it was over" (Preston & Zalta, 2020) -
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To philosophy
Returning to Vienna, went to University to study history and sociology. Sneaking into philosophy lectures and briefly meeting with Karl Popper, slowly enticed the youth into pursuing philosophy -
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London
Feyerabend went to the London School of Economics to attend lectures by Karl Popper were his views and ideals aligned more and more with that of Popper's -
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Returning to Vienna
Feyerabend having been a direct assistant to Popper, decided to moved back to Vienna. Where he was then an assistant to Arthur Pap where he began to write and publish articles and papers. -
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University of Bristol
Got his first professor job at the University of Bristol in England lecturing in the philosophy of science. -
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University of California
Many papers concerning the relationship between observations and theory were already published by this time. When he was invited to spend a year in California at Berkeley, to which the University decided to hire him. -
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Student Revolution
Feyerabend became entangled and extremely supportive of the free speech movement of the sixties were he tormented the university staff that had hired him. -
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Relativisim
After brief teaching positions at London, Berlin, and Yale, Feyerabend took a professorship at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. In his lectures he would "demolish virtually every traditional academic boundary. He held no idea and no person sacred."(Preston & Zalta, 2020) -
Backlash
A impressive amount of criticism was received after the publication of "Against Method" to which Feyerabend felt that responses must be made and published a collection of them in his next book "Science in a Free Society" -
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Zurich
The one professor position Feyerabend recalled as positive was his time in Zurich at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule. His most influential papers during this time were collected and published in a book titled "Farewell to Reason".