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Born
He was born in Vienna. There he attended primary school and high school. Shortly after high school, he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service. This was a program lead by the Nazis to militarize the german workforce. He then went on to volunteer to be an Officer in the German Army. Towards the end of WW2, he was shot 3 times which ended his military career. -
First academic appointment
Paul Feyerabend gave lectures at the University of Bristol. In his words, the lectures were disasters. He lectured in the Philosophy of Science and was clueless as to what he was supposed to teach since he had very little knowledge of the subject. Other professors had to help him formulate his lectures. -
Quantum Theory of Measurement
He gave a paper on the Quantum Theory of Measurement. The biggest take away was that there is no separate and neutral observation-language” or “everyday language” against which the theoretical statements of science are tested, but that “the everyday level is part of the theoretical rather than something self-contained and independent. -
Publication of "An Attempt at a Realistic Interpretation of Experience"
Here Feyerabend in opposition to positivism and was in favor of the relationship between theory and experience. He echoed Popper's falsification quite a bit in this work. He also came up with "Thesis I", meaning the observation-language we use is dependent on the theories we use in order to explain what we observe. The language changes when the theory changes. -
Against Method
This article was originally supposed to titled "For and Against Method", but unfortunately his college Imre Lakatos died before his "For" portion of the volume was completed. Paul went on to release the title without the rationalist side of whether or not there was a set of rules that governed science. Feyerabend concluded in his volume that there is no useful set of rules that inhibit the scientific process and the expansion of knowledge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85pzjUvBZSI -
Death
Feyerabend died shortly after finishing his autobiography in Geneva at the age of 70. The cause of death was a brain tumor.
