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Feyerabend youth
Paul Feyerabend was born on January 13,1924 into a middle class Viennese family. The aftermath of world war one made the world a dangerous place. Age of six he started school and had no idea how people lived but he found out about books which indulged him. In high school he was a vorzugsschiiler(student grades that exceeded a certain average)but at this time drama came up and led to an accident where he was forced to accept philosophy texts. The dramatic possibilities of reasoning had power. -
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War life
Feyerabend army record was trying to stay away front the front lines. He went to officer school to get out of front line work, not out of volunteered. He was later sent to the front line after completing his school and lead his men into battle. one battle he would get shot in his spine which would have him paralyzed but he would recover after the war. -
Start of philosophy
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After the war he would later attend the university of Vienna's to study theoretical physics. He took the radical positivist line that ''science is the basis of knowledge.'' At the international summer seminar of the Austrian college society he met philosopher of science Karl Popper. He was offered the post of scientific secretary at Alpbach symposium . ''This was the most decisive step of my life.'' -
''Student Revolution''
Feyerabend ran into the free speech movement and encountered the student revolution in London and berlin. This moment his experience under theses educational policies was one of the defining periods of his life. During this time he had not yet find his inner philosopher of science. He received job offers from london, Berlin, Yale and Auckland to be a fellow All Souls Coolage, Oxford. -
His Fame
In 1970 Feyerabend and Lakatos published the book For and Against the method. Lakatos would put forward the ''Rationalist case that there was an identifiable set of rules of scientific method which makes all good science. This is where Feyerabend would attack several prominent accounts of scientific methodology. Later Lakatos would die unexpected and they couldn't finished their joint work
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The end
In the 1990s he published a volume of his Philosophical papers and his last book The conquest of abundance. These were his last books that he made before dying on February 11th 1994. He gained a reputation for being an anti-science philosopher.(the worst enemy of science) He influenced very different groups of thinkers and within social studies. Gained an enormous influence on a generation of sociologist of science though relativism, Social Constructivism and apparent irrationalism.
