Paul Feyerabend and Austrian Philosophy

Matteo Collodel is a historian of the philosophy of science specializing in twentieth-century thought, with a particular focus on Paul K. Feyerabend, Critical Rationalism, and Logical Empiricism. He leads the research project “Against Authority: Paul K. Feyerabend’s Life and Thought” at the Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna, and is a subject expert in logic and philosophy of science at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.His recent editorial work includes two volumes of Feyerabend’s Formative Years: Correspondence and Unpublished Papers (Springer, 2020; 2024), which draw on previously unpublished archival sources to illuminate the early development of Feyerabend’s thought. He is also the author of the entry “Critical Rationalism and the Debate over the Rationality of Science” in the Routledge Handbook of History of Philosophy of Science (F. Padovani and A. T. Tuboly, eds., Routledge, 2025).Daniel Kuby is a visiting scholar at the Department of Philosophy, University of Konstanz. He holds a doctoral degree in history and philosophy of science from the University of Vienna, focusing on Paul Feyerabend and Logical Empiricism. In 2014 he was co-recipient of the Bader-Prize for the History of the Natural Sciences from the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He was a postdoctoral researcher in the project "Forcing: Conceptual change in the foundations of mathematics" investigating the history and philosophy of modern set theory.Friedrich Stadler: Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Vienna, ret. Permanent Fellow, Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna, and Director of the Vienna Circle Society. Founder and (co-)editor of 3 Springer series “Vienna Circle Institute Yearbooks”, “Vienna Circle Institute Library”, “Veröffentlichungen des Institut Wiener Kreis.He is a Member of the Turin Academy of Sciences, a former President of the European Philosophy of Science Association and the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. He edited the volume "Paul Feyerabend. Ein Philosoph aus Wien" together with Kurt Fischer (Springer 2006).

• Editorial (Friedrich Stadler, Matteo Collodel, Daniel Kuby).- Part I: Paul Feyerabend and Austrian Philosophy.- Feyerabend and Philosophy of Science.- 1 Feyerabend’s Anarchist Philosophy of Science and Its Ancient and Modern Sources (Gerrit Tiefental).- 2 Paul Feyerabend’s Ludwig Boltzmann (John Preston).- Feyerabend and the Vienna Circle.- 3 A Trialogue on Relativism: Frank, Neurath, Feyerabend (Martin Kusch).- 4 Feyerabend’s Assault on the Vienna Circle (Artur Koterski).- 5 Feyerabend’s Viennese Realisms (Jordi Cat).- Feyerabend, Wittgenstein and Anscombe.- 6 Wittgenstein’s Impact Upon Feyerabend in His Viennese Time: Feyerabend’s Reviews of the Philosophical Investigations as a Possible Key (Natalia Tomashpolskaia).- 7 Wittgenstein’s Impact Upon Feyerabend in His Viennese Time: Feyerabend’s Reviews of the Philosophical Investigations as a Possible Key (Ulrich Arnswald).- 8 On Anscombe's Intentionality and Feyerabend’s Incommensurability (Rita Kimijima-Dennemayer).- Feyerabend and Popper — A Dispute.- 9 Feyerabend versus Popper (Eric Oberheim).- 10 Feyerabend and the Burden of his Popperian Apprenticeship (Matteo Collodel)- Feyerabend and Arts- 11 Paul Feyerabend and the Fountain (Paul Hoyningen-Huene Huene)- Report and Documentation- 12 Introduction: Notes on Feyerabend’s Philosophical Breakthrough (Matteo Collodel).- 13 Feyerabend on Empiricism and Freedom in Theorizing [1961] (Arne Naess and Matteo Collodel).- 14 Notes on Linguistic Philosophy and the Mind-Body Problem (1963) (Paul K. Feyerabend and Matteo Collodel).- 15 Physical Existence Theories [1964] (Paul K. Feyerabend and Matteo Collodel).- 16 Letter to Feyerabend, 18 August 1964 (Dudley Shapere and Matteo Collodel).- 17 Feyerabend’s Pluralism (1965) (Maurice A. Finocchiaro and Matteo Collodel).- 18 The Feyerabend-Finocchiaro Correspondence (1965) (Paul K. Feyerabend, Maurice A. Finocchiaro, and Matteo Collodel).- 19 Wissenschaft, Erfahrung, Metaphysik (1966) (Paul K. Feyerabend and Matteo Collodel).- Part II: General Part.- 20 Moritz Schlick and his Circle – After One Hundred Years - 32nd Vienna Circle Lecture (Massimo Ferrari).- 21 Kinds of Apriori – 8th Arthur Pap Lecture (Luca Oliva).- 22 The International Circle for the Promotion of Econometric Studies (Marcel Boumans).- 23 From McEnroe’s Maxim to Madonna’s Principle. A Kantian, Inferentialist Re-reading of the Protokollsätze Debate (Jesús Zamora-Bonilla).- Part III: Reviews.- 24 Review Essay: “If logical empiricism is worth caring about, there must be some account of the significance of it.” Some reflections on Alan Richardson’s historicist project (Elisabeth Nemeth).- 25 Review Essay: Vienna Activism: Rediscovering the Collected Works of Rudolf Goldscheid (Bastian Stoppelkamp).- 26 Review Essay: Otto Neurath: A lesser-known episode of his life and the relationship to Rudolf Carnap in correspondence and commentary (Alan Scott).- 27 Review: Alan Richardson and Adam Tamas Tuboly (ed.), Interpreting Carnap. Critical Essays, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024 (Christoph Limbeck-Lilienau).- Index.