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Essays in the memory of Imre Lakatos

By: Imre Lakatos,Robert S. Cohen,P.K. Feyerabend,Marx W. Wartofsky

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Essays in the memory of Imre Lakatos

By: Imre Lakatos,Robert S. Cohen,P.K. Feyerabend,Marx W. Wartofsky

The death of Imre Lakatos on February 2, 1974 was a personal and philosophical loss to the worldwide circle of his friends, colleagues and students. This volume reflects the range of his interests in mathematics, logic, politics and especially in the history and methodology of the sciences. Indeed, Lakatos was a man in search of rationality in all of its forms. He thought he had found it in the historical development of scientific knowledge, yet he also saw rationality endangered everywhere. To honor Lakatos is to honor his sharp and aggressive criticism as well as his humane warmth and his quick wit. He was a person to love and to struggle with. PAUL K. FEYERABEND ROBERT S. COHEN MARX W. WARTOFSKY TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface VII JOHN WORRALL / Imre Lakatos (1922-1974): Philosopher of Mathematics and Philosopher of Science JOSEPH AGASSI / The Lakatosian Revolution 9 23 D. M. ARMSTRONG / Immediate Perception w. W. BAR TLEY, III/On Imre Lakatos 37 WILLIAM BERKSON / Lakatos One and Lakatos Two: An Appreciation 39 I. B. COHEN / William Whewell and the Concept of Scientific Revolution 55 L. JONATHAN COHEN / How Can One Testimony Corroborate Another? 65 R. S. COHEN / Constraints on Science 79 GENE D'AMOUR/ Research Programs, Rationality, and Ethics 87 YEHUDA ELKANA / Introduction: Culture, Cultural System and Science 99 PA UL K.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9027706557

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Proofs and Refutations

The Logic of Mathematical Discovery

By: Imre Lakatos

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Proofs and Refutations

The Logic of Mathematical Discovery

By: Imre Lakatos

This influential book discusses the nature of mathematical discovery, development, methodology and practice, forming Imre Lakatos's theory of 'proofs and refutations'.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107113466

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For and Against Method

Including Lakatos's Lectures on Scientific Method and the Lakatos-Feyerabend Correspondence

By: Imre Lakatos,Paul Feyerabend

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For and Against Method

Including Lakatos's Lectures on Scientific Method and the Lakatos-Feyerabend Correspondence

By: Imre Lakatos,Paul Feyerabend

The work that helped to determine Paul Feyerabend's fame and notoriety, Against Method, stemmed from Imre Lakatos's challenge: "In 1970 Imre cornered me at a party. 'Paul,' he said, 'you have such strange ideas. Why don't you write them down? I shall write a reply, we publish the whole thing and I promise you—we shall have a lot of fun.' " Although Lakatos died before he could write his reply, For and Against Method reconstructs his original counter-arguments from lectures and correspondence previously unpublished in English, allowing us to enjoy the "fun" two of this century's most eminent philosophers had, matching their wits and ideas on the subject of the scientific method. For and Against Method opens with an imaginary dialogue between Lakatos and Feyerabend, which Matteo Motterlini has constructed, based on their published works, to synthesize their positions and arguments. Part one presents the transcripts of the last lectures on method that Lakatos delivered. Part two, Feyerabend's response, consists of a previously published essay on anarchism, which began the attack on Lakatos's position that Feyerabend later continued in Against Method. The third and longest section consists of the correspondence Lakatos and Feyerabend exchanged on method and many other issues and ideas, as well as the events of their daily lives, between 1968 and Lakatos's death in 1974. The delight Lakatos and Feyerabend took in philosophical debate, and the relish with which they sparred, come to life again in For and Against Method, making it essential and lively reading for anyone interested in these two fascinating and controversial thinkers and their immense contributions to philosophy of science. "The writings in this volume are of considerable intellectual importance, and will be of great interest to anyone concerned with the development of the philosophical views of Lakatos and Feyerabend, or indeed with the development of philosophy of science in general during this crucial period."—Donald Gillies, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (on the Italian edition) "A stimulating exchange of letters between two philosophical entertainers."—Tariq Ali, The Independent Imre Lakatos (1922-1974) was professor of logic at the London School of Economics. He was the author of Proofs and Refutations and the two-volume Philosophical Papers. Paul Feyerabend (1924-1994) was educated in Europe and held numerous teaching posts throughout his career. Among his books are Against Method; Science in a Free Society; Farewell to Reason; and Killing Time: The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend, the last published by the University of Chicago Press.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226467031

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The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1

Philosophical Papers

By: Imre Lakatos

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The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1

Philosophical Papers

By: Imre Lakatos

Imre Lakatos' philosophical and scientific papers are published here in two volumes. Volume I brings together his very influential but scattered papers on the philosophy of the physical sciences, and includes one important unpublished essay on the effect of Newton's scientific achievement. Volume II presents his work on the philosophy of mathematics (much of it unpublished), together with some critical essays on contemporary philosophers of science and some famous polemical writings on political and educational issues. Imre Lakatos had an influence out of all proportion to the length of his philosophical career. This collection exhibits and confirms the originality, range and the essential unity of his work. It demonstrates too the force and spirit he brought to every issue with which he engaged, from his most abstract mathematical work to his passionate 'Letter to the director of the LSE'. Lakatos' ideas are now the focus of widespread and increasing interest, and these volumes should make possible for the first time their study as a whole and their proper assessment.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521280311

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Mathematics, Science and Epistemology: Volume 2, Philosophical Papers

By: Imre Lakatos

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Mathematics, Science and Epistemology: Volume 2, Philosophical Papers

By: Imre Lakatos

Volume I brings together his very influential but scattered papers on the philosophy of the physical sciences, and includes one important unpublished essay on the effect of Newton's scientific achievement. Volume 2 presents his work on the philosophy of mathematics together with some critical essays on contemporary philosophers of science.

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Mathematics, Science and Epistemology: Volume 2, Philosophical Papers

By: Imre Lakatos

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0521217695

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For and Against Method

Including Lakatos's Lectures on Scientific Method and the Lakatos-Feyerabend Correspondence

By: Imre Lakatos,Paul Feyerabend

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Including Lakatos's Lectures on Scientific Method and the Lakatos-Feyerabend Correspondence

By: Imre Lakatos,Paul Feyerabend

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Mathematics, Science and Epistemology: Volume 2, Philosophical Papers

By: Imre Lakatos

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The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1

Philosophical Papers

By: Imre Lakatos

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Philosophical Papers

By: Imre Lakatos

This collection exhibits and confirms the originality, range and the essential unity of his work.

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Proofs and Refutations

The Logic of Mathematical Discovery

By: Imre Lakatos

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The Logic of Mathematical Discovery

By: Imre Lakatos

Imre Lakatos's Proofs and Refutations is an enduring classic, which has never lost its relevance. Taking the form of a dialogue between a teacher and some students, the book considers various solutions to mathematical problems and, in the process, raises important questions about the nature of mathematical discovery and methodology. Lakatos shows that mathematics grows through a process of improvement by attempts at proofs and critiques of these attempts, and his work continues to inspire mathematicians and philosophers aspiring to develop a philosophy of mathematics that accounts for both the static and the dynamic complexity of mathematical practice. With a specially commissioned Preface written by Paolo Mancosu, this book has been revived for a new generation of readers.

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1316425339

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Identity Games

Globalization and the Transformation of Media Cultures in the New Europe

By: Anikó Imre

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Identity Games

Globalization and the Transformation of Media Cultures in the New Europe

By: Anikó Imre

An examination of the unique, hybrid media practices generated by Eastern Europe's accelerated transition from late communism to late capitalism. Eastern Europe's historically unprecedented and accelerated transition from late communism to late capitalism, coupled with media globalization, set in motion a scramble for cultural identity and a struggle over access to and control over media technologies. In Identity Games, Anikó Imre examines the corporate transformation of the postcommunist media landscape in Eastern Europe. Avoiding both uncritical techno-euphoria and nostalgic projections of a simpler, better media world under communism, Imre argues that the demise of Soviet-style regimes and the transition of postcommunist nation-states to transnational capitalism has crucial implications for understanding the relationships among nationalism, media globalization, and identity. Imre analyzes situations in which anxieties arise about the encroachment of global entertainment media and its new technologies on national culture, examining the rich aesthetic hybrids that have grown from the transitional postcommunist terrain. She investigates the gaps and continuities between the last communist and first post-communist generations in education, tourism, and children's media culture, the racial and class politics of music entertainment (including Roma Rap and Idol television talent shows), and mediated reconfigurations of gender and sexuality (including playful lesbian media activism and masculinity in "carnivalistic" post-Yugoslav film). Throughout, Imre uses the concepts of play and games as metaphorical and theoretical tools to explain the process of cultural change -- inspired in part by the increasing "ludification" of the global media environment and the emerging engagement with play across scholarly disciplines. In the vision that Imre offers, political and cultural participation are seen as games whose rules are permanently open to negotiation.

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MIT Press

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0262090457

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Proofs and Refutations

The Logic of Mathematical Discovery

By: Imre Lakatos,John Worrall,Elie Zahar

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The Logic of Mathematical Discovery

By: Imre Lakatos,John Worrall,Elie Zahar

Proofs and Refutations is essential reading for all those interested in the methodology, the philosophy and the history of mathematics. Much of the book takes the form of a discussion between a teacher and his students. They propose various solutions to some mathematical problems and investigate the strengths and weaknesses of these solutions. Their discussion (which mirrors certain real developments in the history of mathematics) raises some philosophical problems and some problems about the nature of mathematical discovery or creativity. Imre Lakatos is concerned throughout to combat the classical picture of mathematical development as a steady accumulation of established truths. He shows that mathematics grows instead through a richer, more dramatic process of the successive improvement of creative hypotheses by attempts to 'prove' them and by criticism of these attempts: the logic of proofs and refutations.

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052121078X

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Dynamics of an Authoritarian System

Hungary, 2010–2021

By: Mária Csanádi,Márton Gerő,Miklós Hajdu,Imre Kovách,István János Tóth,Mihály Laki

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Dynamics of an Authoritarian System

Hungary, 2010–2021

By: Mária Csanádi,Márton Gerő,Miklós Hajdu,Imre Kovách,István János Tóth,Mihály Laki

This conceptually synthetic and empirically rich book demonstrates the vulnerability of democratic settings to authoritarianism and populism. Six scholars from various professional fields explore here the metamorphosis of a political party into a centralized authoritarian system. Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party needed less than ten years to accomplish this transformation in Hungary. In 2010, after winning a majority that could make changes in the constitution – two-thirds of the parliamentary seats, they evolved and stabilized the system, which produced again the two-thirds majority in 2014 and 2018. The authors reveal how a democratic setting can be used as a device for political capture. They show how a political entity managed to penetrate almost all sub-fields of the economy to arrive at institutionalized corruption, and how the centralized power structure reproduces itself. With the help of a powerful empirical apparatus—among others analyses of more than 220,000 public tenders, redistributions of state subsidies, and the interconnectedness of those privileged with the political elite — the authors detail the functioning of a crony system and the network aspects of political connections in the rapid enrichment of politically-linked businesses. Their studies demonstrate the role of political capture in this redistribution and how this capture leads to a new social stratification.

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Central European University Press

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9633865786

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Essays in the memory of Imre Lakatos

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Proofs and Refutations

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For and Against Method

For and Against Method

The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1

The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1

Mathematics, Science and Epistemology: Volume 2, Philosophical Papers

Mathematics, Science and Epistemology: Volume 2, Philosophical Papers

Mathematics, Science and Epistemology: Volume 2, Philosophical Papers

Mathematics, Science and Epistemology: Volume 2, Philosophical Papers

For and Against Method

For and Against Method

Mathematics, Science and Epistemology: Volume 2, Philosophical Papers

Mathematics, Science and Epistemology: Volume 2, Philosophical Papers

The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1

The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1

Proofs and Refutations

Proofs and Refutations

Identity Games

Identity Games

Proofs and Refutations

Proofs and Refutations

Dynamics of an Authoritarian System

Dynamics of an Authoritarian System

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