Paul Feyerabend

Paul Feyerabend (13 January 1924 – 11 February 1994) was an Austrian-born American philosopher of science famous for rejecting the existence of a fixed and universal scientific method and proposing allegedly anarchistic/dadaistic view of science.

Publications

Here are the works of Feyerabend included in the bibliographic records of this encyclopedia:

• Feyerabend (2015): Feyerabend, Paul. (2015) Philosophical Papers. Vol. 4, Physics and Philosophy. Cambridge University Press.
• Feyerabend (2010): Feyerabend, Paul. (2010) Against Method. Fourth Edition. Verso.
• Feyerabend (1999): Feyerabend, Paul. (1999) Philosophical Papers. Vol. 3, Knowledge, Science and Relativism. Cambridge University Press.
• Feyerabend (1995): Feyerabend, Paul. (1995) Killing Time: The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend. University of Chicago Press.
• Feyerabend (1993): Feyerabend, Paul. (1993) Against Method. Third Edition. Verso.
• Feyerabend (1991): Feyerabend, Paul. (1991) Three Dialogues on Knowledge. Blackwell.
• Feyerabend (1988): Feyerabend, Paul. (1988) Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge. Second Edition. Verso.
• Feyerabend (1987): Feyerabend, Paul. (1987) Farewell to Reason. Verso.
• Feyerabend (1984a): Feyerabend, Paul. (1984) Philosophy of Science 2001. Methodology, Metaphysics and the History of Science 84, 137-147.
• Feyerabend (1984b): Feyerabend, Paul. (1984) Xenophanes: A Forerunner of Critical Rationalism? Rationality in Science and Politics 79, 95-109.
• Feyerabend (1981a): Feyerabend, Paul. (1981) Philosophical Papers. Vol. 1, Realism, Rationalism and Scientific Method. Cambridge University Press.
• Feyerabend (1981b): Feyerabend, Paul. (1981) Philosophical Papers. Vol. 2, Problems of Empiricism. Cambridge University Press.
• Feyerabend (1980): Feyerabend, Paul. (1980) Democracy, Elitism and Scientific Method. Inquiry 23 (1), 3-18.
• Feyerabend (1979): Feyerabend, Paul. (1979) Dialogue on Method. Structure and Development of Science 59 (1), 63-131.
• Feyerabend (1978a): Feyerabend, Paul. (1978) Science in a Free Society. New Left Books.
• Feyerabend (1978b): Feyerabend, Paul. (1978) The Gong Show - Popperian Style. Progress and Rationality in Science 58 (4), 387-392.
• Feyerabend (1977a): Feyerabend, Paul. (1977) Marxist Fairytales from Australia. Inquiry 20, 372-397.
• Feyerabend (1977b): Feyerabend, Paul. (1977) Changing Patterns of Reconstruction. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 28 (4), 351-369.
• Cohen et al. (Eds.) (1976): Cohen, Robert S.; Feyerabend, Paul and Wartofsky, Marx W. (Eds.). (1976) Essays in Memory of Imre Lakatos. Springer.
• Feyerabend (1976a): Feyerabend, Paul. (1976) On the Critique of Scientific Reason. In Cohen et al. (Eds.) (1976), 109-143.
• Feyerabend (1976b): Feyerabend, Paul. (1976) Logic, Literacy, and Prof. Gellner. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 27 (4), 381-391.
• Feyerabend (1975a): Feyerabend, Paul. (1975) Against Method. New Left Books.
• Feyerabend (1975b): Feyerabend, Paul. (1975) How to Defend Society Against Society. Radical Philosophy 11 (1), 3-9.
• Feyerabend (1975c): Feyerabend, Paul. (1975) Imre Lakatos. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 26 (1), 1-18.
• Feyerabend (1975d): Feyerabend, Paul. (1975) Science: The Myth and its Role in Society. Inquiry 18 (2), 167-181.
• Feyerabend (1974): Feyerabend, Paul. (1974) Popper's Objective Knowledge. In Feyerabend (1981b), 168-201.
• Feyerabend (1973): Feyerabend, Paul. (1973) Theses on Anarchism. In Motterlini (Ed.) (1999), 113-118.
• Feyerabend (1972): Feyerabend, Paul. (1972) On the Limited Validity of Methodological Rules. In Feyerabend (1999), 138-180.
• Feyerabend (1970e): Feyerabend, Paul. (1970) In Defence of Classical Physics. In Feyerabend (2015), 239-267.
• Feyerabend (1970a): Feyerabend, Paul. (1970) Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science 4 (2), 17-129.
• Feyerabend (1970b): Feyerabend, Paul. (1970) Classical Empiricism. In Feyerabend (1981b), 34-51.
• Feyerabend (1970c): Feyerabend, Paul. (1970) Consolations for the Specialist. In Lakatos and Musgrave (Eds.) (1970), 197-230.
• Feyerabend (1970f): Feyerabend, Paul. (1970) Problems of Empiricism: II. In Colodny (Ed.) (1970), 275-354.
• Feyerabend (1970d): Feyerabend, Paul. (1970) Experts in a Free Society. In Feyerabend (1999), 112-126.
• Feyerabend (1968-1969): Feyerabend, Paul. (1969) On a Recent Critique of Complementarity. In Feyerabend (1981a), 247-297.
• Feyerabend (1969a): Feyerabend, Paul. (1969) Linguistic Arguments and Scientific Method. In Feyerabend (1981a), 146-150.
• Feyerabend (1969b): Feyerabend, Paul. (1969) Science Without Experience. In Feyerabend (1981a), 132-137.
• Feyerabend (1968): Feyerabend, Paul. (1968) Science, Freedom and the Good Life. Philosophical Forum 1 (2), 127-135.
• Feyerabend (1967a): Feyerabend, Paul. (1967) On the Improvement of the Sciences and the Arts, and the Possible Identity of the Two. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 3, 387-415.
• Feyerabend (1965b): Feyerabend, Paul. (1965) Reply to Criticism: Comments on Smart, Sellars and Putnam. In Feyerabend (1981a), 104-131.
• Feyerabend (1965c): Feyerabend, Paul. (1965) On the "Meaning" of Scientific Terms. In Feyerabend (1981a), 97-103.
• Feyerabend (1965a): Feyerabend, Paul. (1965) Problems of Empiricism: I. In Colodny (Ed.) (1965), 145-260.
• Feyerabend (1964a): Feyerabend, Paul. (1964) A Note on the Problem of Induction. In Feyerabend (1981a), 203-207.
• Feyerabend (1964b): Feyerabend, Paul. (1964) Review of "Scientific Change" Edited by A. C. Crombie. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 15 (59), 244-254.
• Feyerabend (1964c): Feyerabend, Paul. (1964) Realism and Instrumentalism: Comments on the Logic of Factual Support. In Feyerabend (1981a), 176-202.
• Feyerabend (1964d): Feyerabend, Paul. (1964) The Structure of Science. In Feyerabend (1981b), 52-64.
• Feyerabend (1963a): Feyerabend, Paul. (1963) How to be a Good Empiricist. Philosophy of Science: The Delaware Seminar 2, 3-39.
• Feyerabend (1963b): Feyerabend, Paul. (1963) Materialism and the Mind-Body Problem. In Feyerabend (1981a), 161-176.
• Feyerabend (1962a): Feyerabend, Paul. (1962) Explanation, Reduction and Empiricism. In Feyerabend (1981a), 44-97.
• Feyerabend (1962b): Feyerabend, Paul. (1962) Problems of Microphysics. In Feyerabend (1981a), 298-342.
• Feyerabend (1961a): Feyerabend, Paul. (1961) Knowledge Without Foundations. In Feyerabend (1999), 50-78.
• Feyerabend (1960c): Feyerabend, Paul. (1960) On the Interpretation of Scientific Theories. In Feyerabend (1981a), 37-44.
• Feyerabend (1960a): Feyerabend, Paul. (1960) Patterns of Discovery. Philosophical Review 69 (2), 247-252.
• Feyerabend (1960b): Feyerabend, Paul. (1960) Professor Bohm's Philosophy of Nature. In Feyerabend (1981a), 219-236.
• Feyerabend (1958a): Feyerabend, Paul. (1958) An Attempt at a Realistic Interpretation of Experience. In Feyerabend (1981a), 17-36.
• Feyerabend (1958b): Feyerabend, Paul. (1958) Reichenbach's Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. In Feyerabend (1981a), 236-246.
• Feyerabend (1957): Feyerabend, Paul. (1957) On the Quantum Theory of Measurement. In Feyerabend (1981a), 207-219.
• Feyerabend (1955): Feyerabend, Paul. (1955) Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. In Feyerabend (1981b), 99-131.
• Feyerabend (1948): Feyerabend, Paul. (1948) The Concept of Intelligibility in Modern Physics. In Feyerabend (2015), 3-8.

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