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11 february 1994 genolier , vaud , switzerland lakatos churchland mccloskey murphy hacking foucault kuhn nader 20th-century philosophy vienna , austria epistemological anarchism mill lessing popper anscombe wittgenstein kierkegaard bachelard koyré ehrenhaft philosophy politics of science , critiquing falsificationism , epistemology , epistemological anarchism 13 january 1924 paul feyerabend berkeley.jpg paul feyerabend
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paul feyerabend

paul karl feyerabend -lrb- ; january 13 , 1924 -- february 11 , 1994 -rrb- was an austrian-born philosopher of science best known for his work as a professor of philosophy at the university of california , berkeley , where he worked for three decades -lrb- 1958 -- 1989 -rrb- .
he lived at various times in england , the united states , new zealand , italy , germany , and finally switzerland .
his major works include `` against method '' -lrb- published in 1975 -rrb- , `` science in a free society '' -lrb- published in 1978 -rrb- and `` farewell to reason '' -lrb- a collection of papers published in 1987 -rrb- .
feyerabend became famous for his purportedly anarchistic view of science and his rejection of the existence of universal methodological rules .
he is an influential figure in the philosophy of science , and also in the sociology of scientific knowledge .
