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Imre Lakatos (1922-1974) was one of the protagonists in shaping the ""new philosophy of science"". His main theme of locating rationality within the scientific process appears even more compelling today, after many historical case studies have revealed the cultural and societal elements within scientific practices. There has been an increasing interest in Lakatos' philosophy of mathematics, which emphasizes heuristics and mathematical practice over logical justification. But suitable modifications of his approach are called for in order to make it applicable to modern axiomatized theories. Historical research in England and Hungary has unearthed facts about Lakatos' personal life, his wartime activities and his involvement in the political developments of post-war Europe. From a communist activist committed to Gyorgyi Lukacs' thinking, Lakatos developed into a staunch anti-Marxist who found his intellectual background in Popper's critical rationalism.

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Author:   György Kampis ,  L. Kvasz ,  Michael Stöltzner
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.620kg
ISBN:  

9781402002267

ISBN 10:   1402002262
Pages:   382
Publication Date:   31 March 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

The Propositional Content of the Popper-Lakatos Rift.- Lakatos’ Criticisms of Popper.- Professor Lakatos Between the Hegelian Devil and the Popperian Deep Blue Sea.- Explaining Scientific Progress: Lakatos’ Methodological Account of Kuhnian Patterns of Theory Change.- Lakatos, Reason and History.- “Heuristic Power” and the “Logic of Scientific Discovery”: Why the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes is Less Than Half the Story.- Lakatos on Crucial Experiments and the History of Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics.- Argumentation and the Mathematical Process.- Towards an Evolutionary Account of Conceptual Change in Mathematics: Proofs and Refutations and the Axiomatic Variation of Concepts.- What Lakatos Could Teach the Mathematical Physicist.- Lakatos’ Mitigated Scepticism in the Philosophy of Mathematics.- Lakatos’ Methodology Between Logic and Dialectic.- Mathematical Heuristic — Lakatos and Pólya.- Lakatos and Aspects of Mathematics Education.- The Unforgiven: Imre Lakatos’ Life in Hungary.- Lakatos and Lukács.- Lakatos’ Political Reawakening.- A Documentation Arranged by Gábor Kutrovátz.- Lakatos’ Hungarian Papers Between 1946–1956.- Index of Names.

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