| Appraising
Lakatos – Mathematics, Methodology and the Man
Autoren
Carrier, Congdon, Corfield
, Forrari, Gillies
, Kiss, Koetsier, Kvasz, Long, Mormann,
Motterlini, Reichel, Ropolyi, Stöltzner,
Szegedi, Watkins, Worall
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Table of Contents
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Introduction
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I. IN DEFENCE OF SCIENTIFIC RATIONALITY
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JOHN WATKINS: The Propositional Content of the Popper-Lakatos Rift
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3
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DONALD GILLIES: Laktatos' Criticisms of Popper
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13
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MATTEO MOTTERLINI: Prof Lakatos Between the Hegelian Devil and the
Popperian Deep Blue Sea
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23
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MARTIN CARRIER: Explaining Scientific Progress: Lakatos’Methodological Account
of Kuhnian Patterns of Theory Change
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53
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GABOR FORRARI: Lakatos, Reason and History
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73
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JOHN WORALL: “Heuristic Power” and the “Logic of Scientific Discovery:
Why the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes ist Less Than Half the Story”
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85
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PETER SZEGEDI: “Lakatos on Crucial Experiments and the History of Interpretations of
Quantum Mechanics
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101
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II. UNDERWAY TO A PHILOSOPHY OF CONTEMPORARY MATHEMATICS
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DAVID CORFIELD: Argumentation and the Mathematical Process
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115
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THOMAS MORMANN: Toward an Evolutionary Account of Conceptual Change
in Mathematics: Proofs and Refutations and the Axiomatic Variation of Concepts
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139
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MICHAEL STÖLTZNER: What Lakatos Could Teach the Mathematical Physicist
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157
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TEUN KOETSIER: Lakatos’ Mitigated Scepticism in the Philosophy of Mathematics
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189
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LADISLAV KVASZ: Lakatos’ Methodology Between Logic and Dialectic
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211
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OLGA KISS: Mathematical Heuristic - Lakatos and Pólya
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243
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HANS-CHRISTIAN REICHEL: Lakatos an Aspects of Mathematics Education
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255
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III. LIFE AND POLITICS
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JANCIS LONG: The Unforgiven: Imre Lakatos’ Life in Hungary
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263
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LASZLO ROPOLYI: Lakatos and Lukács
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303
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LEE CONGDON: Lakatos’Political Reawakening
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339
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IV. IMRE LAKATOS’ HUNGARIAN DISSERTATION
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A Documentation Arranged by Gabor Kutrovatz
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353
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Lakatos’ Hungarian Papers Between 1946-1956
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375
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Index of Names
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377
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