For and Against Method

The work that helped to determine Paul Feyerabend''s fame and notoriety, Against Method, stemmed from Imre Lakatos''s challenge: "In 1970 Imre cornered me at a party. ''Paul,'' he said, ''you have such strange ideas. Why don''t you write them down? I shall write a reply, we publish the whole thing and I promise you—we shall have a lot of fun.'' " Although Lakatos died before he could write his rep...