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views and titled most of his work as radicalistic, interestingly, this book has been re-edited and re-published around four times (some of which include commentary of some modern philosophers) (Preston, n.d.). This suggests that although Feyerabend and his ideas seem to have been cast aside in the field of philosophy, his ideas remain important and influential to this day. The main theme of Against Method—that which propelled him into fame (and earned his title as a radical)—was Feyerabend’s -
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view that science was not made up of a single methodology but rather was made up of several (Preston, n.d.). In addition, he states that science does not progress via a set standard but rather that the structure that scientific progress assumes can be of any kind: the essence of his most famous phrase, “anything goes.” -
Dates and MLA Citations of Major Works
Feyerabend, Paul. Against Method. London: Verso, 1975. Feyerabend, Paul. Science in a Free Society. London: New Left Books, 1978. Feyerabend, Paul. Philosphy of Nature. New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. -
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Paul Feyerabend was born in Austria in 1924. He worked alongside Karl Popper and other influential philosophers, being influenced and guided by some and also influencing them (Preston, n.d.). Feyerabend has been called a wild-man of philosophy along with other labels. One of his most influential works was that of Against Method published in 1975. It turns out that although the 1970s community of philosophers of science, along with other intellectuals of the time, did not accept most of his -
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References
Preston, John, "Paul Feyerabend", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2016 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2016/entries/feyerabend/.