<P> Feyerabend summarises his reductios with the phrase "anything goes". This is his sarcastic imitation of "the terrified reaction of a rationalist who takes a closer look at history". </P> <P> Some have seen the publication of Against Method as leading to Feyerabend's isolation from the community of philosophers of science, who objected to his view that there is no such thing as the scientific method . </P> <P> The first edition of Against Method went through several reprintings until the revised (second) edition came out in 1988 . A further revision produced a third edition in 1993 . The most recent edition, the fourth, was published by Verso Books, in 2010, with a new introduction by Ian Hacking . </P> <P> A French translation by Baudouin Jurdant and Agnes Schlumberger was published by Éditions du Seuil in 1979, as Contre la méthode: esquisse d'une théorie anarchiste de la connaissance . ISBN 2 - 02 - 005370 - 5 </P>

Against method outline of an anarchist theory of knowledge