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Paul  K.  Feyerabend
[1924-94]

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'Paul Feyerabend is one of the greatest philosophers of science of the XXth Century'

"Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges towards an ideal view; it is rather an ever-increasing ocean of mutually
incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth."

"All religion may be centered around a generally good idea; however, this has not stopped its adherents from acting like bastards."

"The best education consists in immunizing people against sytematic attempts at education."

"Every moderately interesting theory is falsified."

"Science is only one of the many instruments [that] people invented to cope with their surroundings. It is not the only one, it is not infallible,
and it has become too powerful, too pushy, and too dangerous to be left on its own."

"Not only are facts and theories in constant disharmony, they are never as neatly separated as everyone makes them out to be."

"A Universal Good should reflect the reality of the individual benefits that are collected under its name, not the other way around."

"The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths."

— Paul K. Feyerabend

Paul K. Feyerabend Foundation [est. 2006] is based in Switzerland
Paul Feyerabend entry at Wikipedia
Paul Feyerabend credits [1948 & 1956] at Internet Movie Database

Major  Works
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German-language books by Paul Feyerabend at publisher Suhrkamp Verlag

	"Against Method: Outline of An Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge" [1975] international bestseller by Paul Feyerabend, new Introduction by Ian Hacking Verso 8¼x5½ pb [5/2010] for $23.70 Verso 8½x5¾ hardcover [5/2010] out of print/used book entry at Wikipedia
	"Science In A Free Society" [1978] by Paul Feyerabend Verso 8x5¼ pb [6/82] for $19.95 New Left Books 9x6 hardcover [10/78] out of print/used
	"Farewell To Reason" [1987] by Paul Feyerabend a collection of papers, with illustrations; has remained in print for 30 years; book blurb: "Provocative, polemical, and rigorously argued, Farewell To Reason will infuriate Feyer- abend’s critics and delight his many admirers" • bare entry at Wikipedia Verso 8½x5½ pb [1/88] for $26.95 "Adios a La Razon" Spanish Edition [2007] Tecnos Editorial SA Spanish-language pb [5/2008] for $23.00
	"Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction versus The Richness of Being" [1999] by Paul Feyerabend & Bert Terpstra Univ Chicago Press 9x6 pb [5/2001] for $28.00 Univ Chicago Press 9x6 hardcover [12/99] for $27.54
	"Naturphilosophie (Philosophy of Nature)" [German 2009, English 2016] by Paul Feyerabend, Edited by Helmut Heit & Eric Oberheim The first volume of a planned trilogy; long-thought-lost manuscript from the 1970s recently discovered at the Philosophisches Archiv der Universität Konstanz in Germany Kindle Edition from Polity [9/2016] for $16.49 Polity 9x6 pb [11/2018] for $19.95 Polity 9¼x6½ hardcover [6/2016] for $45.98 Suhrkamp Verlag German-language 8x5 hardcover [2009] for $26.62
	"The Tyranny of Science" [2011] by Paul Feyerabend written in 1993, first published in 2011 Polity 8½x5½ pb [4/2011] for $17.95 Polity 8¾x5½ hardcover [5/2011] for $41.15

Other  Works
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	"Mind, Matter, and Method: Essays In Philosophy and Science In Honour of Herbert Feigl" [1966] Edited by Paul Feyerabend & Grover Maxwell Univ Minnesota Press 9x8 hardcover [5/66] out of print/used Herbert Feigl [1902-88] was an Austrian-American philosopher and a member of the Vienna Circle.
	"Philosophical Papers, Volume 1: Realism, Rationalism, and Scientific Method" [1981] by P.K. Feyerabend Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 pb [6/85] for $24.58 Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [10/81] out of print/used
	"Philosophical Papers, Volume 2: Problems of Empiricism" [1981] by P.K. Feyerabend Kindle Edition from Cambridge Univ Press [1985 edition] for $28.00 Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 pb [6/85] for $30.27 Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [10/81] out of print/used
	"Three Dialogues On Knowledge" [1991] by Paul Feyerabend Wiley-Blackwell 9x6 pb [8/91] for $34.75 Blackwell Publrs hardcover [8/91] out of print/used
	"Philosophical Papers, Volume 3: Knowledge, Science, and Relativism, 1960-1980" [1999] Edited by John Preston Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 pb [3/2008] for $46.99 Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [5/99] for $90.91 {sic}
	"For and Against Method: Including Lakatos's Lectures On Scientific Method and The Lakatos-Feyerabend Correspondence" [1999] Edited & with Introduction by Matteo Motterlini Hungarian philosopher Imre Lakatos [1922-1974] challenged Feyerabend at a party in 1970, suggesting that Feyerabend publish his 'many strange ideas', then Lakatos would reply, then they publish 'the whole thing' and they will have a lot of fun; Lakatos died before such a project was realized, but editor Motterlini has constructed the equivalent Kindle Edition from Univ Chicago Press [5/2010] for $32.47 Univ Chicago Press 9x6 pb [12/2000] for $34.18 Univ Chicago Press 9x6 hardcover [10/99] out of print/used
	"Philosophical Papers, Volume 4: Physics and Philosophy, 1948-1970" [2015] Edited by Stefano Gattei & Joseph Agassi Kindle Edition from Cambridge Univ Press [9/2015] for $104.00 {sic} Cambridge Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/2015] for $121.53 {sic}

Stageplays,  Movies,  Other  Media
Paul Feyerabend credits [1948 & 1956] at Internet Movie Database

"Der Prozeß" [Austria March 1948] /tt0040714/
Directed by G.W. Pabst

"Heidemarie S'Waisechind vo Engelberg" [Austria Sept 1956]
("The Orphan of Engelberg")

Andreas promises at the deathbed of his childhood friend to take care of the latter's daughter Heidemarie; but Andreas is unmarried and the authorities work slowly; a distant uncle takes Heidemarie in for the care-giver money; Heidemarie becomes friends with Peter, who begs for his living. Village schoolteacher Calix campaigns for Andreas, and finally Heidemarie is taken in by Andreas, along with the parentless Peter Produced by Félix Beaujon; directed by Hermann Kugelstadt; adapted by Jeanne Humbert from the novel by Johanna Spyri; starring Gustav Knuth, Hannes Schmidhauser, Eveline Grüneisen {as Heidemarie}; Paul Feyerabend is listed among the actors Ascot Elite Home Ent. color DVD [8/2008] import/used  in PAL format only Ascot Elite Home Ent. color DVD [8/2008] for €24,97 - PAL format via Amazon.DE full credits at IMDb

Works  About  Paul  Feyerabend

"Beyond Reason: Essays On The Philosophy of Paul Feyerabend" [1991] Edited by Gonzalo Munévar Springer/B.S.P.S. 9x6 pb [10/2012] overpriced Springer/B.S.P.S. 9x6 hardcover [1991] overpriced

The Independent, U.K. obituary by John Watkins, 4 March 1994
New York Times obituary by Wolfgang Saxon, 8 March 1994

	"Killing Time: The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend" [1995] Finished only weeks before his death, this is the self-portrait of one of the XXth Century's most original and influential intellectuals. • book entry at Wikipedia Univ Chicago Press 8½x5½ pb [11/96] for $19.40 Univ Chicago Press 8½x5½ hardcover [5/95] out of print/many used "Zeitverschwendung (Waste of Time)" German original [1995] Suhrkamp Verlag mass pb [8/97] for $38.10 {sic} Suhrkamp Verlag 8x5 hardcover [4/95] out of print/used
	"Feyerabend: Philosophy, Science, and Society" biography [1997] by John Preston Kindle Edition from Polity [4/2013] for $17.59 Polity 9x6 pb [8/97] for $26.95 Polity 9¾x8 hardcover [8/97] out of print/used
	"The Worst Enemy of Science?: Essays In Memory of Paul Feyerabend" [2000] Edited by John Preston, Gonzalo Munévar & David Lamb Oxford Univ Press 9x6½ hardcover [2/2000] for $77.94

Friends  &  Family
Paul Karl Feyerabend was born in Vienna, Austria in January 1924; he served in the German Army from 1942 until wounded in 1945; his first book
"Against Method" [1975] was an international bestseller; he taught at U.C. Berkeley 1958-1990; died of a brain tumor in 1994 at age 70 in Switzerland.

first wife Edeltrud Feyerabend [] - married in 1948

second wife Mary O'Neill. Feyerabend [] - married in 1956

third wife Grazia Borrini Feyerabend [] - married in January 1989

mentor in England (1952-53) Karl Popper [1902-94]
Feyerabend switched to opposition of Popper's ideas around 1970

L i n k s
Paul K. Feyerabend Foundation [est. 2006] is based in Switzerland
Paul Feyerabend entry at Wikipedia
Paul Feyerabend credits [1948 & 1956] at Internet Movie Database
browse books at the incomplete Paul Feyerabend Store {28 titles} at Amazon
search books on keywords 'Paul+Feyerabend' {returns 70+ titles} at Amazon

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend/ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
MC's Feyerabend fansite

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