Paul Feyerabend is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Paul Feyerabend as Austrian-born philosopher of science.
Paul Feyerabend was born at Vienna in 1924. His recorded nationality is Germany. He studied at University of Vienna.
Twentieth-century philosophy was marked by war, exile and ideology; many of its central figures wrote in flight or under censorship.
His academic posts were held at Freie Universität Berlin, London School of Economics and Political Science and University of Cambridge.
The recorded fields of work are philosophy of science.
Among his principal works are Against Method, Science in a Free Society and Killing Time. A philosophical position survives not by being proved but by resisting every attempt to dispose of it.
That the work was done from Germany matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Paul Feyerabend died in 1994, aged 70. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Notable work: Against Method
- Notable work: Science in a Free Society
- Notable work: Killing Time
- Notable work: Farewell to Reason
- Held posts at Freie Universität Berlin, London School of Economics and Political Science and University of Cambridge
- Fields: philosophy of science
