Kadvany / Smith / Weintraub Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8044-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 399 Seiten

Reihe: Science and Cultural Theory

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kadvany, John

Smith, Barbara Herrnstein

Weintraub, E. Roy

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Analytic Contents

Preface

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. An 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

Notes

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

John Kadvany is a Principal at the mangement consulting firm Policy and Decision Science. He has published essays on Lakatos, the philosophy of mathematics, risk, and environmental policy.