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The Early life of Pal Feyerabend
Paul Feyerabend was born in Vienna, Austria on January 13th, 1924. He developed a love for reading, theater and signing. After High school he was drafted into Arbeitsdienst or the reich labor force. He then attended basic training in Pirmasens and was then assigned to a unit in Quelern en Bas. He then signed up for officer school in the German Army in 1943 and he served as an officer on the Eastern front in WWII and was injured in combat and spent the rest of his life recovering. -
Post WWII and University
After the war Feyerabend got a job in Apolda, Germany writing plays. He took various classes at Weimar Academy and returned to Vienna to study history and sociology. Dissatisfied with these fields he transferred to physics where he met Felix Ehrenhaft who's work would latter influence Feyerabend's views on nature and science. Feyerabend then changed his study again to Philosophy. in 1948 he visited Alpbach, Austria and met Karl poper who had a positive and negative affect on him. -
Post WWII and University (continued)
In 1949 Feyerabend became a founding member of the Kraft circle ( a society of philosopher). In 1951 he was granted a British Counsel scholarship to study under Wittgenstien but Wittgenstein died before Feyeraben moved to England. Feyerabend chose coper as a supervisor instead and then went to study at the London School of Economics in1952. -
Academia
In 1955, Feyerabend received his first academic appointment at the University of Bristol, where he gave lectures about the philosophy of science. Later in his life he worked as a professor (or equivalent) at Berkeley, Auckland, Kassel[5], Sussex, Yale, London, Berlin and ETH Zurich. During this time, he developed a critical view of science, which he later described as 'anarchistic' or 'dadaistic' to illustrate his rejection of the dogmatic use of rules. -
University (continued)
Feyerabend moved to the University of California, Berkeley in California in 1958 and became a U.S. citizen. Following (visiting) professorships at University College London, Berlin, and Yale, he taught at the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 1972 and 1974, always returning to California. He later enjoyed alternating between posts at ETH Zurich and Berkeley through the 1980s but left Berkeley for good in October 1989, first to Italy, then finally to Zurich. -
Publishings of Feyerabend
Feyerabend, P. (1975). "Against Method: Outline of an Anarchist Theory of Knowledge". Edition 1,2,3. New Left Books. -
The end of life for Paul Feyerabend
After his retirement in 1991, Feyerabend continued to publish frequent papers and worked on his autobiography. After a short period of suffering from a brain tumor, he died in 1994 at the Genolier Clinic, overlooking Lake Geneva, Switzerland. -
video link
Below is a youtube link for a podcast about Paul Feyerabend. I found it informative and interesting though I did feel the narrator does not know how to pronounce Pauls last name. haha. https://youtu.be/85pzjUvBZSI