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Born in Vienna in the aftermath of the first world war
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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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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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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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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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Got his first professor job at the University of Bristol in England lecturing in the philosophy of science.
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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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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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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)
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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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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".