Audiovisuals

Recordings of Pkf's lectures, radio talks & interviews 

recordings in reverse chronological order

"Lieber Himmel - was ist ein Mensch?"

Interview by Rüdiger Safranski - Rome 1993

Language: German - Duration: 44m

Interview given for the WDR television program Philosophie Heute, Ulrich Boehm (ed.), Junius: Hamburg 1993.


Courtesy of WDR

Interview by Renato Parascandolo

Rome, 15 May 1992

Language: English - Duration: 57m 30s

Interview given for the RAI television program Enciclopedia Multimediale delle Scienze Filosofiche


Courtesy of Teche RAI


Feyerabend on the Vienna Circle

Excerpt from an interview by Vittorio Hösle and Renato Parascandolo - Rome, 15 May 1992

Language: English - Duration: 9m 59s

The interview was integrally published as "Three Interviews with Paul Feyerabend", Telos, 102 (Winter 1995), 115-149.


Trento Lectures

Trento, 4-8 May 1992

Five lectures delivered to the University of Trento; published as The Tyranny of Science, Eric Oberheim (ed.), Polity: Cambridge 2011 and in Italian, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Farsi translation since 1996.


Courtesy of the University of Trento

Lecture 1

Trento, 4 May 1992


Language: English and Italian

Duration: 1h 59m 19s


Courtesy of the University of Trento

Lecture 2

Trento, 5 May 1992


Language: English and Italian

Duration: 1h 56m 51s


Courtesy of the University of Trento

Lecture 3

Trento, 6 May 1992


Language: English and Italian

Duration: 2h 6m 53s


Courtesy of the University of Trento

Lecture 4

Trento, 7 May 1992


Language: English and Italian

Duration: 2h 4m 5s


Courtesy of the University of Trento

Lecture 5

Trento, 8 May 1992


Language: English and Italian

Duration: 1h 45m 49s


Courtesy of the University of Trento

Zurich Lectures

ETH Zurich, April-July 1985

Lecture 1, April 1985 - Part 1

Duration: 47m 42s

Lecture 1, April 1985 - Part 2

Duration: 49m 03s

Lecture 2, 24 April 1985 - Part 1

Duration:  47m 02s

Lecture 2, 24 April 1985 - Part 2

Duration: 48m 34s

Lecture 3, 8 May 1985 - Part 1

Duration: 40m 04s

Lecture 3, 8 May 1985 - Part 2

Duration: 45m 38s

Lecture 5, 22 May 1985 - Part 1

Duration:  48m 01s

Lecture 5, 22 May 1985 - Part 2

Duration:  46m 38s

Lecture 6, 29 May 1985 - Part 1

Duration: 48m 42s

Lecture 6, 29 May 1985 - Part 2

Duration: 42m 24s

Lecture 7, 5 June 1985 - Part 1

Duration: 46m 51s

Lecture 7, 5 June 1985 - Part 2

Duration: 42m 26s

Lecture 8, 12 June 1985 - Part 1

Duration: 45m 28s

Lecture 8, 12 June 1985 - Part 2

Duration: 36m 04s

Lecture 9, 19 June 1985 - Part 1

Duration: 48m 52s

Lecture 9, 19 June 1985 - Part 2

Duration: 46m 52s

Lecture 10, 26 June 1985 - Part 1

Duration: 46m 43s

Lecture 10, 26 June 1985 - Part 2

Duration: 48m 40s

Lecture 11, 3 July 1985 - Part 1

Duration: 42m 59s

Lecture 11, 3 July 1985 - Part 2

Duration: 47m 03s

Lecture 12, 10 July 1985 - Part 1

Duration: 45m 49s

Lecture 12, 10 July 1985 - Part 2

Duration: 51m 08s

Wissenschaft als Kunst

Feyerabend's inaugural lecture at ETH Zurich, 18 June 1981

Language: German

Duration: 56m 01s

Courtesy of ETH Zurich

Kassel Lectures

University of Kassel, 7 June - 6 July, 1977

Lecture 1, 7 June 1977

Duration: 1h 34m 52s

Lecture 2, 15 June 1977

Duration: 1h 31m 37s 

Lecture 3, 16 June 1977

Duration: 1h 40m 34s

Lecture 4, 22 June 1977

Duration: 1h 31m 33s

Lecture 5, 23 June 1977

Duration: 1h 20m 00s

Lecture 6, 29 June 1977

Duration: 1h 27m 24s

Lecture 7, 6 July 1977

Duration: 1h 42m 25s

Session of a Conference on the “Logical Analysis of Theories in the Empirical Science”

Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, 28 May 1966, 2:30 pm

Language: English


Courtesy of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science

P. K. Feyerabend

"Critique of Nagel and Carnap on Scientific Explanation"

Duration: 56m 30s

Feyerabend's paper largely corresponds to parts of his review of Ernest Nagel, The Structure of Science (Routledge & Kegan Paul: London 1961), The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 17: 3 (November 1966), 237-249.

Discussion

Duration: 1h 19m 52s

Comments or questions on Feyerabend's paper and Feyerbend's replies 

An adapted transcription of the discussion was published as part of the section "Discussion at the Conference on Correspondence Rules" in Analysis of Theories and Methods of Physics and Psychology, Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 4, M. Radner and S. Winokur (eds), University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis 1970, pp. 232-241.

Feyerabend at the 1964 European Forum Alpbach

Language: German - Duration: 2m 2s

Clip from a documentary film on the EFA.


Courtesy of ORF

"Eigenart und Wandlungen physikalischer Erkenntnis" [Peculiarity and Change in Physical Knowledge]

RIAS-Funkuniversität, 5 and 29 April 1963

Language: German - Duration: 26m 28s

Radio lecture for RIAS, the radio and television station in the American Sector of Berlin; printed in Physikalische Blätter, 21: 5 (May 1965) pp. 197-203; English translation  by J. R. Wettersten, J. L. Heilbron and C. Luna in Physics and Philosophy: Philosophical Papers, Volume 4, Stefano Gattei and Joseph Agassi (eds), Cambridge University Press: Cambridge 2016, Ch. 10 (pp. 211-218). 


Courtesy of ARD 1 Audiothek

"Psyche and Soma" - Herbert Feigl and Paul K. Feyerabend

Minneapolis, 26 November 1962

Language: English - Duration: 1h 35m 12s

Discussion of the mental and the physical, the mind/body problem in philosophy before a Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science audience. 


Courtesy of Leslie J. Yonce, manager of the Paul Meehl webpage (University of Minnesota)