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|First Name=Paul
|Last Name=Feyerabend
|DOB Era=CE
|DOB Year=1924
|DOB Month=January
|DOB Day=13
|DOB Approximate=No
|DOD Era=CE
|DOD Year=1994
|DOD Month=February
|DOD Day=11
|DOD Approximate=No
|Brief=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|Summary=Paul Feyerabend is accurately referred to has been described as “the "the wild man of twentieth century philosophy of science”science".[[CiteRef::Godfrey-Smith (2003)|p. 102]] In the 1960s and 70s, the notion of a changing or dynamic scientific method (which is scarcely refuted today) first surfaced - this was regarded as "one of the key tenets of both [[Thomas Kuhn|Kuhn]]’s [[Kuhn (1962)|''Structure'']] and Feyerabend’s [[Feyerabend (1975a)|''Against Method'']]".[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 217]] Both philosophers of science subscribed to the point of view that there is no such thing as an unchangeable method of science (known in contemporary terms as the Static Method Thesis). Feyerabend’s anarchistic views of science are exemplified throughout his extensive works. His propositions developed into his conclusion that all science was irrational.
|Historical Context=Though Feyerabend adopted an anarchic view, there have been many other attempts to explicate the Scientific Method (a method of appraisal in light of evidence to determine which theory is better). Below are three prominent Philosophers who attempted to achieve such an explanation, and a brief description of their subjective criterion.
