Title | Essays in Memory of Imre Lakatos [electronic resource] / edited by R. S. Cohen, P. K. Feyerabend, M. W. Wartofsky |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1976 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1451-9 |
Descript | XII, 768 p. online resource |
Imre Lakatos (1922โ1974): Philosopher of Mathematics and Philosopher of Science -- The Lakatosian Revolution -- Immediate Perception -- On Imre Lakatos -- Lakatos One and Lakatos Two: An ppreciation -- William Whewell and the Concept of Scientific Revolution -- How Can One Testimony Corroborate Another? -- Constraints on Science -- Research Programs, Rationality, and Ethics -- Introduction: Culture, Cultural System and Science -- On the Critique of Scientific Reason -- The Young Einstein and The Old Einstein -- An Ethic of Cognition -- Instrumentalism and Its Critique: A Reappraisal -- Imre Lakatos: Some Recollections -- Is Falsifiability the Touchstone of Scientific Rationality? Karl Popper versus Inductivism -- Ancient Geometrical Analysis and Modern Logic -- The Development of Logical Probability -- Descartesโ Rules of Impact and Their Criticism. An Example of the Structure of Processes in the History of Science -- Toulmin and the Rationality of Science -- Participation, โAuthenticityโ and the Contemporary Vision of Man, Law and Society -- Rational Reconstructions -- A Paradox for the Birds -- Mathematics as a Critical Enterprise -- The Fertility of Theory and the Unit for Appraisal in Science -- The Ambivalence of Scientists -- Method or Madness? -- Novel Predictions as a Criterion of Merit -- Whither Physical Objects? -- Popperian Philosophy of Science as an Antidote Against Relativism -- Conditions of Progress and the Comparability of Theories -- Comments on Two Epistemological Theses of Thomas Kuhn -- Leibnizโs Program for the Development of Logic -- On Comptonโs Research Program -- Inquiring Systems and Paradigms -- History, Praxis and the Third Worldโ. Ambiguities in Lakatosโ Theory of Methodology -- Against Some Methods -- The Human Condition: Two Criticisms of Hobbes -- The Relation Between Philosophy of Science and History of Science -- Cosmology and Logic โ An Intractable Issue? -- Index of Names