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Birth and Early Life
Born in Vienna, Austria in January of 1924. During his early years of primary and high school, his interests included reading that led to further interests in theatre and signing. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend/ -
draft
After Paul graduated high school in April of 1942, he was drafted into a mandatory workforce organization called the Reich Labour Service. This proceeded the year of he volunteered to join the army and go to officer school, and included mostly physical labor he described as monotonous. -
Officer Service in the German Army
In December of 1943, his career began as an officer in the German Army. During this time he earned the rank of lieutenant and the Iron Cross after being shot 3 times. One of his bullet wounds would affect him for the rest of his life, forcing him to walk with the support of a cane. -
Recovery from the war
After recovering from his wounds of the war, Feyerabend returned to his passion for song and theatre by undertaking a stage-manager position in Weimer at the Musikhochschule. This remained as one of his main interests during his life. -
Karl Poppers Introduction
Paul attended an international seminar in Albach hosted by the Austrian College Society where he met the individual who would be responsible as the number one source of influence in all his work, Karl Popper. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend/#PostWarActi1945 -
London School of Economics
In 1952, he transferred to London School of Economics in order to study under the direction of Popper. Paul's concentration was on the quantum theory and teachings of Ludwig Wittgenstein including his philosophical investigations and prepared a summary of the book. -
Lecturer-University of Bristol, England
This marked his first full-time lecturer position in the philosophy of science, granted by the University of Bristol England in 1955. He lectured here for 3-4 years later moving on to the University of California-Berkley, where he spent the majority of his lecturing and lecturing abroad for over 30 years. Bristol was the open door to his future of lecturing where he cut ties with those scholars who "preached but did not follow Popper's ideals". https://books.google.com/books? -
Start of Berkley and meeting Thomas Kuhn
In 1958, he started part-time at Berkley taking on a full-time position by 1960. Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend were critical of the idea that there is some fixed, rational logic to science. The two met at the university in 1959. In regards to the idea of openness, Paul took a far greater extreme, that would later show in universities a few years later in the 60's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiNm5Ec-GuE -
Science in a Free Society
The book included replies to reviewers of his Against Method and clarification of epistemological anarchism. In this also was his major endorsements of relativism. -
Officially resigned from Berkeley
In March of 1990, after more than 30 years of lecturing and accomplishments in publications of his works, he officially retired from the University of California-Berkley only 4 years shy of his passing. -
Final years and passing
Many small publications of his work were released in the final years after retiring from Berkley and Zurich in 1991. He passed away from complications of a brain tumor found during these years, many more works were published in his memory during the 2 years following his death in February of 1994 including Conquest of Abundance in 1999.
