Appraising Lakatos Mathematics, Methodology, and the Man

Appraising Lakatos Mathematics, Methodology, and the Man / edited by György Kampis, L. Kvasz, Michael Stöltzner.

Imre Lakatos (1922-1974) was one of the protagonists in shaping the "new philosophy of science". More than 25 years after his untimely death, it is time for a critical re-evaluation of his ideas. His main theme of locating rationality within the scientific process appears even more compell...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Kampis, György (Editor), Kvasz, L. (Editor), Stöltzner, Michael (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2002.
Edition:1st ed. 2002.
Series:Vienna Circle Institute Library, 1
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Philosophy and science.
Epistemology.
Modern philosophy.
Mathematics.
History.
Political philosophy.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
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.

Similar Items