35 Facts About Epistemological anarchism

Epistemological anarchism started his academic career as lecturer in the philosophy of science at the University of Bristol ; afterwards, he moved to the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for three decades.

Epistemological anarchism gave lecture series at Stanford University, the University of Kassel and the University of Trento.

Epistemological anarchism wrote on topics related to the politics of science in several essays and in his book Science in a Free Society.

Epistemological anarchism was a seamstress and died on July 29,1943 by suicide.

Epistemological anarchism was inspired by his teacher Oswald Thomas and developed a reputation as knowing more than the teachers.

Epistemological anarchism sang in a choir under Leo Lehner and was later introduced to opera and inspired by performances from George Oeggl and Hans Hotter.

Epistemological anarchism later trained formally under the tutelage of Adolf Vogel and others.

Epistemological anarchism's mother was entranced by Hitler's voice and demeanor and his father was similarly impressed by Hitler's charisma and later joined the Nazi Party.

Epistemological anarchism joined the Cultural Association for the Democratic Reform of Germany, the only association he ever joined.

Epistemological anarchism originally intended to study physics, astronomy, and mathematics but decided to study history and sociology to understand his wartime experiences.

Epistemological anarchism became dissatisfied and soon transferred to physics and studied astronomy, especially observational astronomy and perturbation theory, as well as differential equations, nuclear physics, algebra, and tensor analysis.

Epistemological anarchism took classes with Hans Thirring, Hans Leo Przibram, and Felix Ehrenhaft.

Epistemological anarchism was influenced by the Marxist playwright Bertolt Brecht, who invited him to be his assistant at the East Berlin State Opera, but Feyerabend turned down the offer.

Epistemological anarchism married his first wife, divorced, and became involved in various romantic affairs, despite his physical impotence.

Epistemological anarchism drew great pleasure from opera, which he could attend even five days a week, and from singing.

Epistemological anarchism attended Popper's lectures on logic and scientific method and became convinced that induction was irrational.

Epistemological anarchism often invited students and outsiders, including Lenny Bruce and Malcolm X, to guest lecture on a variety of issues including gay rights, racism, and witchcraft.

Epistemological anarchism supported the students but did not support student strikes.

Epistemological anarchism asked students in his undergraduate classes to build something useful, like furniture or short films, rather than term papers or exams.

Epistemological anarchism mostly wanted to encourage attention to scientific practice and common sense rather than to the empty 'clarifications' of logicians, but his views were not appreciated by the intellectuals who were then directing traffic in the philosophical community, who tended to isolate him.

Epistemological anarchism exposed that by "avoiding scholarly ways of presenting a view" and using "common locutions and the language of show business and pulp instead".

Epistemological anarchism kept moving among academic appointments.

Epistemological anarchism heard of Feyerabend from train passengers in Europe and attended his seminar in Berkeley.

Epistemological anarchism remained based in Meilen, in Switzerland, but often spent time with his wife in Rome.

Epistemological anarchism is buried in his family grave, in Vienna.

Epistemological anarchism tries to show that von Neumann's measurement scheme can be made consistent without the collapse postulate.

Epistemological anarchism's theory appears in the same year as Thomas Kuhn's discussion of incommensurability in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, but the two were developed independently.

Joseph Agassi claims that it was caused by the student revolutions at Berkeley, which somehow promoted Feyerabend's move towards epistemological anarchism defended in the 1970s.

Feyerabend's epistemological anarchism has been the source of contention amongst scholars.

Some claim that epistemological anarchism is not a positive view of scientific method, but the conclusion of a reductio ad absurdum of 'rationalism'.

Epistemological anarchism is synonymous with a pluralism without limits, where one can proliferate any theory one wishes and one can tenaciously develop any theory for as long as one wishes.

Epistemological anarchism thought that citizens should use their own principles when making decisions about these matters.

Epistemological anarchism rejected the view that science is especially "rational" on the grounds that there is no single common "rational" ingredient that unites all the sciences but excludes other modes of thought.

Epistemological anarchism was one of the intellectual forefathers of social constructivism and science and technology studies, although he participated little in either field during his lifetime.

Epistemological anarchism's work was influential on several physicists who felt empowered to experiment with approaches different from those of their supervisors as well on many social scientists who were under great pressure to conform to the 'standards' of the natural sciences.