He started his academic career as lecturer in the philosophy of science at the University of Bristol β ; afterwards, he moved to the University of California, Berkeley , where he taught for three decades β He gave lectures and lecture series at the University of Minnesota β , Stanford University , the University of Kassel and the University of Trento Feyerabend's most famous work is Against Method , wherein he argued that there are no universally valid methodological rules for scientific inquiry.
He also wrote on topics related to the politics of science in several essays and in his book Science in a Free Society Feyerabend's later works include Wissenschaft als Kunst Science as Art , Farewell to Reason , Three Dialogues on Knowledge , and Conquest of Abundance released posthumously in which collect essays from the s until Feyerabend's death in The uncompleted draft of an earlier work was released posthumously, in , as Naturphilosophie English translation of Philosophy of Nature.
This work contains Feyerabend's reconstruction of the history of natural philosophy from the Homeric Period until the midth century. In these works and other publications, Feyerabend wrote about numerous issues at the interface between history and philosophy of science and ethics , ancient philosophy , philosophy of art , political philosophy , medicine , and physics. Feyerabend's final work was his autobiography, entitled Killing Time , which he completed on his deathbed.
Paul Feyerabend is recognized as one of the most important philosophers of science of the 20th century. In a poll, he was ranked as the 8th most significant philosopher of science.
Hanson as a crucial figure in the historical turn in philosophy of science, and his work on scientific pluralism has been markedly influential on the Stanford School and on much contemporary philosophy of science. Feyerabend was also a significant figure in the sociology of scientific knowledge. Paul Feyerabend was a humanist. He was also fun. In line with this humanistic interpretation and the concerns apparent in his later work, the Paul K. Feyerabend Foundation was founded in in his honor.
