Feyerabend

Paul Feyerabend

  • Birth of Paul Feyerabend

    Paul Feyerabend was born in Vienna, Austria.
  • Feyerabend meets Popper

    Feyerabend meets Popper who has a positive impact on the young man at the time. As time goes on, Popper's views change and it actually makes Feyerabend unhappy and this is noted in his autobiography, Killing Time/
  • Against Method Published

    Paul's first major work, Against Method was published. This is where he began to be rejected from many many main stream science circles due to his views that science was anarchistic by nature and that the scientific method didn't exist.
  • Asteroid 22356 Feyerabend

    I had noticed this name many times in my observing sessions and what was visible from my location. Asteroid 22356 was officially renamed Feyerabend in honor of the philosopher. Not many people have asteroids named after them.
  • Death of Paul Feyerabend

    Paul Feyerabend dies in Switzerland at the age of 70.
  • Tyranny of Science Published

    The Tyranny of Science is published in 2013. This was over 13 years from it's date of writing. This was Feyerabend's last literary work. It was noted many times in this book, and his others that "science is successful" was a complete myth.