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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 compelling today, after many historical case studies have revealed the cultural and societal elements within scientific practices. Recently there has been, above all, an increasing interest in Lakatos' philosophy of mathematics, which emphasises heuristics and mathematical practice over logical justification. But suitable modifications of his approach are called for in order to make it applicable to modern axiomatised theories. Pioneering historical research in England and Hungary has unearthed hitherto unknown 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 Gyrgyi Lukcs' thinking, Lakatos developed into a staunch anti-Marxist who found his intellectual background in Popper's critical rationalism. The volume also publishes for the first time a part of his Debrecen Ph.D. thesis and it is concluded by a bibliography of his Hungarian writings.
The Propositional Content of the Popper-Lakatos Rift / John Watkins -- Lakatos' Criticisms of Popper / Donald Gillies -- Professor Lakatos Between the Hegelian Devil and the Popperian Deep Blue Sea / Matteo Motterlini -- Explaining Scientific Progress: Lakatos' Methodological Account of Kuhnian Patterns of Theory Change / Martin Carrier -- Lakatos, Reason and History / Gabor Forrai -- "Heuristic Power" and the "Logic of Scientific Discovery": Why the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes is Less Than Half the Story / John Worrall -- Lakatos on Crucial Experiments and the History of Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics / Peter Szegedi -- Argumentation and the Mathematical Process / David Corfield
edited by George Kampis, Ladislav Kvasz, Michael Stöltzner.
Includes bibliographical references and index.