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.

External links

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "Paul Feyerabend"
• Feyerabend Forum
• Feyerabend's "anything goes" argument explained at the Galilean Library
• Feyerabend's 'Trojan Horse': Imre Lakatos' covert Hegelianism
• Feyerabend and Beyond, an interview with Feyerabend's student Gonzalo Munévar at the Galilean Library