Paul Feyerabend in Retrospect

In this paper, Agassi reflects on his own interaction with Feyerabend, as it evolved over the years, and especially on Feyerabend’s intellectual legacy as a philosopher of science and a teacher. Whereas he appreciates Feyerabend’s early work and endorses some of his criticism of Popper, he regards Feyerabend’s later change of view, and his turn from rationalism to relativism, as unserious. Also, he ascribes the enduring success Feyerabend’s works still enjoy among his peers, more to his provocative style than to their actual content.