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Paul Karl Feyerabend (/ ˈ f aɪ ər ɑː b ə n d /; German: [ˈfaɪɐˌʔaːbm̩t]; January 13, 1924 – February 11, 1994) was an Austrian philosopher best known for his work in the philosophy of science.
Feyerabend began writing Against Method in 1968 [3] and it was originally released as a long paper in the Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science series in 1970. At the behest of Lakatos, who originally planned to write For Method in contrast to Against Method but then died, [3] the paper was expanded into a book published in 1975.
Killing Time: The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend is an autobiography by philosopher Paul Feyerabend.The book details, amongst other things, Feyerabend's youth in Nazi-controlled Vienna, his military service, notorious academic career, and his multiple romantic conquests. [1]
Farewell to Reason is a 1987 book by the Austrian philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend.The book includes some reprinted essays published in other venues and was published by Verso Books, which also published Against Method and Science in a Free Society.
Killing Time (autobiography), a 1994 autobiography by Paul Feyerabend; Killing Time: An Investigation into the Death-Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a 2003 book by Dave Lindorff; Killing Time: Archaeology and the First World War, a 2007 book by Nicholas J. Saunders; Killing Time: Life in the Arkansas Penitentiary, a 1977 photography book by Bruce ...
Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction versus the Richness of Being is the last book by the Austrian philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend, published posthumously by the University of Chicago Press in 1999. It is edited by Bert Terpstra and includes a foreword from Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, Feyerabend's 4th and final wife.
In logic, counterinduction is the practice of elaborating a paradigm that contradicts and helps to question the current one by comparison. Paul Feyerabend argued for counterinduction as a way to test unchallenged scientific theories; unchallenged simply because there are no structures within the scientific paradigm to challenge itself (See Crotty, 1998 p. 39).
Science in a Free Society is the 2nd full length book by the Austrian philosopher of science, Paul Feyerabend. It was published in 1978 by Schocken Books and later reprinted by Verso Books. While Feyerabend never published a second edition, Verso pressed four copies in 1982, 1983, 1985, and 1987. [1]