Paul K. Feyerabend (Wien 1924 - Geneva 1994) was a historian and philosopher of science of great polemical verve. He taught Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley, and the Philosophy of Science at the Polytechnic of Zurich. His most famous book is Contro il metodo (Milan 19915). Laterza has published: Scienza come arte (1984), Dialogo sul metodo (19955), Dialoghi sulla conoscenza (1991), as well as two essays in L. Preta (ed.), Immagini e metafore della scienza (19932), and in M. Ceruti, P. Fabbri, G. Giorello and L. Preta (eds.), Il caso e la libertà (1994). Laterza also published the first world edition of Ammazzando il tempo. Un'autobiografia (1994) which has been translated into Spanish, and is currently being translated into Japanese and Brazilian.