Feyerabend a été fortement influencé par les mouvements de la contre-culture des années 1960. Les thèmes centraux de sa philosophie de la science se retrouvent dans son ouvrage phare Against Method (Contre la Méthode).

Many English words have become terms used internationally. At present this is taken to be a symptom of Anglo-Saxon predominance within the cultural realm. But the case of the term “design” is different. In its international use, “design” means something like a “pattern” or a “sketch,” and the verb “to design” means something like “to make a plan for the production of some object.”