Paul Feyerabend

Paul Karl Feyerabend (January 13, 1924 - February 11, 1994) was an Austrian-born philosopher of science, who later lived in England, the United States, New Zealand, Italy, and finally Switzerland. His major works include Against Method (published in 1975), Science in a Free Society (published in 1978) and Farewell to Reason (a collection of papers published in 1987). Feyerabend became famous for his anarchistic view of science and his rejection of the existence of universal methodological rules. He is an influential figure in the philosophy of science, and also in the sociology of scientific knowledge.

Bibliography

Major works:

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• Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge (1975), ISBN 039100381X, ISBN 0860912221, ISBN 086091481X, ISBN 0860916464, ISBN 086091934X, ISBN 0902308912
• Science in a Free Society (1978), ISBN 0805270434
• Farewell to Reason (1987), ISBN 0860911845, ISBN 0860918963
• Three Dialogues on Knowledge (1991), ISBN 0631179178, ISBN 0631179186
• Killing Time: The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend (1995), ISBN 0226245314, ISBN 0226245322
• Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction versus the Richness of Being (1999), ISBN 0226245330, ISBN 0226245349

Collected papers:

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• Realism, Rationalism and Scientific Method: Philosophical papers, Volume 1 (1981), ISBN 0521228972, ISBN 0521316421
• Problems of Empiricism: Philosophical Papers, Volume 2 (1981), ISBN 0521239648, ISBN 0521316413
• Knowledge, Science and Relativism: Philosophical Papers, Volume 3 (1999), ISBN 0521641292