Paul Feyerabend

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5 total works indexed

1. Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations

   · 1958 · cited 70,570x

2. “Mini-mental state”

   · 1975 · cited 67,716x

3. Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support

   · 2009 · cited 45,419x

4. Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks

   · 2003 · cited 44,683x

5. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 34,522x

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Quotes

• “My life has been the result of accidents, not of goals and principles. My intellectual work forms only an insignificant part of it. Love and personal understanding are much more important. Leading intellectuals with their zeal for objectivity kill these personal elements. They are criminals, not the leaders of mankind.”
• “One can show the following: given any rule, however "fundamental" or "necessary" for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to adopt its opposite.”
• “Without a constant misuse of language, there cannot be any discovery, any progress.”
• “Experience arises together with theoretical assumptions not before them, and an experience without theory is just as incomprehensible as is (allegedly) a theory without experience.”
• “No single theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain”
• “Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives.”

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Key facts

Born

Paul Karl Feyerabend , ( 1924-01-13 ) January 13, 1924, Vienna , Austria

Died

February 11, 1994 (1994-02-11) (aged 70), Genolier , Vaud , Switzerland

Education

University of Vienna (PhD, 1951)

Thesis

Zur Theorie der Basissätze (A Theory of Basic Statements) (1951)

Doctoral advisor

Victor Kraft

Other advisors

Karl Popper , Arthur Pap

Era

20th-century philosophy

Region

Western philosophy

School

Analytic philosophy

Institutions

University of California, Berkeley , ETH Zurich

Doctoral students

Nancey Murphy

Main interests

Philosophy of science , epistemology , political philosophy , ancient philosophy , philosophy of mind

Notable ideas

Epistemological anarchism , Criticism of falsificationism Incommensurability , Eliminative materialism

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