Up our freedom to doubt? Jesus claimed to be the only way to theįather, and also said 'You shall know the truth, and the Once we have found someįinal truth, something that is true beyond question, must we give To become, with medical assistance, a father.Īs a philosopher Feyerabend was particularly concerned with Life his fourth wife turned him into a devoted husband who hoped Radicals, apparently for no deeper reason than that he enjoyedĪll the hellraising. At Berkeley he ostentatiously took the side of the student Office hours, and who was always flying off to give lectures somewhereĮlse. Who didn't want an office because he didn't want to hold regular Kind of professor who sometimes failed to show up for classes,

Rather unstable combination of contrariness and a tendency to Indeed Feyerabend admitted that his thinking was made up of 'a How to be provocative without saying anything unforgivable, and Nazis or with the liberal academic elite indicates that he knew That he never got into serious trouble either with the He taught at Berkeley for most of his career,īut was constantly wooed by other prestigious universities andĪccepted or rejected their offers according to his mood of the Scientists and philosophers, Feyerabend became and remained anĪcademic superstar. In science is that 'anything goes.' Many scientistsĪlthough his irreverence towards science outraged conventional Scientific method,' asserting brazenly that the basic rule Is any single form of reasoning that can be labelled 'the In his mostįamous book, Against Method, Feyerabend denied that there The precursor of what today we call post-modernism. Notorious as the leading voice for 'epistemological anarchism,' Of Karl Popper, but soon carved out his own position and became He was on crutches, in continual pain, and sexually impotent.ĭespite these incapacities he was fabulously successful as a scholar,Ī lecturer, a connoisseur, a lover, and a raconteur.Īfter the war Feyerabend studied physics, and then more or The Iron Cross and wounds so severe that for the rest of his life Up commanding a battalion in the last stages of the disastrous

He rose through the ranks to become an officer, and ended As a young man in Hitler'sĪustria Feyerabend trained to be an opera singer, and had a promisingįuture in that profession when he was drafted into the army inġ942. Both qualities are on display in this engrossingĪutobiography, completed just before the author's death from a If I had to describe Paul Feyerabend in two words, 'brilliant,'Īnd 'irresponsible' are the two that would immediatelyĬome to mind.

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Killing Time by Paul Karl Feyerabend