Paul Feyerabend

Paul Feyerabend was born in Vienna in 1924, the only child of a civil servant and a seamstress. In 1942 he was drafted into the German army. Near the end of the war he was shot in the spine while directing traffic, which left him in a wheelchair for a year and partly paralyzed for life. After the war he studied singing and theater, then history, physics and philosophy at the University of Vienna, where he earned a doctorate. He studied with Karl Popper at the London School of Economics and later taught at the University of California, Berkeley, for about thirty years, as well as in London, Berlin, Auckland and Zurich. In Against Method (1975) he argued, using examples such as Galileo, that great scientists had advanced by breaking the accepted rules of method, and that the only principle that does not hold back progress is 'anything goes'. His views made him one of the most controversial philosophers of science. His autobiography, Killing Time, was published after his death. He died in Switzerland in 1994.

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Faith: Raised Catholic; his adult beliefs are not well documented. Source: Wikipedia