Paul Feyerabend Week 5

By lmcgibbony

  • Birth

    in Vienna, Austria (Preston 2016)

  • Against Method: Outline of an Anarchist Theory of Knowledge is published.

    Argues that the methodological rules that apply to the progress of science or knowledge are useful or exception free and that it is an epistemological anarchy. In his book he insists that the scientific method does not exist. (Preston 2016).

  • Science in a Free Society is published

    Following a bout of depression, this book by Feyerabend reviews the criticisms he received on Against Method. In this work, he clarifies epistemological anarchy and suggests that science and state be separated. He also endorses relativism. (Munevar 1991).

  • Farewell to Reason is published

    This book is a collection of papers by Feyerabend. His work challenges rationalism in science in relation to the Western ideas of progress and development. He insists that these ideas have had consequences on the ecological and social aspects relating to scientific progress. (Feyerabend 1987).

  • Death

    in Genolier, Vaud, Switzerland (Preston 2016)

  • Work Cited

    Preston, J. "Paul Feyerabend." The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2016 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2016/entries/feyerabend/. 2016. Munevar, G. Science in Feyerabend’s Free Society. 10.1007/978-94-011-3188-9_7. 1991. Feyerabend, P. Farewell to Reason. New York: NY. Verso 1987.