Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason /

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An exploration of the philosophy of science and mathematics of Hungarian emigre, Imre Lakatos, demonstrating its contemporary relevance.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kadvany, John David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Lakatos, Imre.
Lakatos, Imre, > 1922-1974.
Kritischer Rationalismus
Science > Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Who Was Imre Lakatos? Ki volt Lakatos Imre?
  • I A Mathematical Bildungsroman
  • 1 The Mathematical Present as History
  • 2 The Method of Proofs and Refutations
  • 3 Mathematical Skepticism
  • 4 Between Formal and Informal
  • 5 Reason Inverted
  • II A Changing Logic of Scientific Discovery
  • 6 Kuhn, Popper, Feyerabend, Lakatos
  • 7 A Historiographical Toolkit
  • 8 Contradiction and Hindsight
  • 9 Reason in History
  • 10 A Changing Logic
  • 11 Classical Political Economy as a Research Programme
  • III Magyarország/Hungary
  • 12 Hungary 1956 and the Inverted World.

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