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Born in Vienna Austria. -
He was drafted into the deutch work service
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Wounded twice in the hand and in the torso most likely during the retreat from the Russian Army. His body wound damaged his spinal nerves. In 1946, he was able to recover from his paralysis, and then received a fellowship to study singing and stage-management.
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Although he planned to study physics, math and possibly astronomy. He chose to read history and sociology at the University of Vienna. Thinking that history, unlike physics, is concerned with real life. He then became dissatisfied with history, and returned to theoretical physics. Together with a group of science students, Feyerabend primarily attended philosophy lectures and seminars.
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Feyerabend’s early papers were published. Feyerabend initiated a critique of the then-orthodox philosophies of science provided by some of the descendants from the Vienna Circle, e.g. Rudolph Carnap, Feigl, Nagel, and Hempel. This critique was conducted through a study of the relationship between observation and theory. -
1970, published an article entitled “Against Method” attacking several accounts of scientific methodology.
Lakatos and Paul subsequently planned the construction of a debate volume, to be entitled For and Against Method. Lakatos would put forward the “rationalist” case that there was an identifiable set of rules of scientific method which make all good science science, and Feyerabend would attack it. This debate never happened as Lakatos died in 1974. -
Feb 11 1994 he died in the Genolier clinic Switzerland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwfoMDrrKZc&t=3s
