Editing Paul Feyerabend (section)

===In philosophy===
While the immediate academic reception of Feyerabend's most read text, ''Against Method'', was largely negative,<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Shaw|first1=Jamie.|last2=Bschir|first2=Karim|date=2021|title=Introduction: Paul Feyerabend's Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century| journal=Interpreting Feyerabend: Critical Essays|language=en|pages=5}}</ref> Feyerabend is recognized today as one of the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th Century. Feyerabend's arguments against a universal method have become largely accepted, and are often taken for granted by many philosophers of science in the 21st century.<ref>{{cite journal | last=Lloyd | first=Elisabeth A. | title=The anachronistic anarchist | journal=Philosophical Studies | volume=81 | issue=2–3 | date=1996 | issn=0031-8116 | doi=10.1007/BF00372785 | doi-access=free | pages=247–261 | url=https://philpapers.org/archive/LLOTAA-2.pdf | access-date=2025-04-03}}</ref> His arguments for pluralism moved the topic into the mainstream<ref>{{Cite book|last=Mitchell|first=Sandra|title=Unsimple Truths: Science, Complexity, and Policy|year=2009|pages=108}}</ref> and his use of historical case studies were influential in the development of the History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) as an independent discipline.<ref name="plato.stanford.edu"/> His arguments against reductionism were also influential on John Dupré, Cliff Hooker, and [[Alan Chalmers]].<ref name="plato.stanford.edu"/> He was also one of the intellectual precursors of [[social constructivism]] and [[science and technology studies]], although he participated little in either field during his lifetime.<ref name="plato.stanford.edu"/>