" For 10 points, name this author of the autobiography Killing Time, as well as Science in a Free Society and Against Method.
One of this man's works analyzes the strange language used in response to a request by Aias, Phoenix, and Odysseus in the chapter "Achilles' Passionate Conjecture."  Besides that work subtitled "A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being", this man inclined to realism under the influence of Herbert Feigl's paper "Existential Hypotheses"  prompting him to argue that positivist theories lead to the "stability thesis", which was inferior to the "Thesis I." This author of The Conquest of Abundance wrote a work featuring a section of invective entitled "Conversations with Illiterates", which responded to critics of an earlier work. That earlier work argued Galileo's theories prevailed because he wrote rhetorically persuasive Italian and contended that Copernicanism only survived because reason was overruled. That work, which was dedicated to Imre Lakatos, also contends that the historical practice of science amounts to "anything goes", arguing for a position of "epistemological anarchism." For 10 points, name this author of the autobiography Killing Time, as well as Science in a Free Society and Against Method.
One of this man's works analyzes the strange language used in response to a request by Aias, Phoenix, and Odysseus in the chapter "Achilles' Passionate Conjecture."  
{Paul Feyerabend}