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Imre Lakatos and Theories of Scientific Change

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Editors:
  1. Kostas Gavroglu

    1. National Technical University of Athens, Greece

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  2. Yorgos Goudaroulis

    1. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

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  3. Pantelis Nicolacopoulos

    1. National Technical University of Athens, Greece

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 111)

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How happy it is to recall Imre Lakatos. Now, fifteen years after his death, his intelligence, wit, generosity are vivid. In the Preface to the book of Essays in Memory of Imre Lakatos (Boston Studies, 39, 1976), the editors wrote: ... 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. The book before us carries old and new friends of that Lakatosian spirit further into the issues which he wanted to investigate. That the new friends include a dozen scientific, historical and philosophical scholars from Greece would have pleased Lakatos very much, and with an essay from China, he would have smiled all the more. But the key lies in the quality of these papers, and in the imaginative organization of the conference at Thessaloniki in summer 1986 which worked so well.

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Table of contents (32 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: A Retrospect

      • John Watkins
      Pages 3-13

    3. Deductive Heuristics

      • Alan Musgrave
      Pages 15-32

    4. Development of Science as a Change of Types

      • Herbert Hörz
      Pages 33-46

    5. Methodology and Ontology

      • J. J. C. Smart
      Pages 47-57

    6. Imre Lakatos in China

      • Fan Dainian
      Pages 59-67

    7. On the Characterization of Cognitive Progress

      • Risto Hilpinen
      Pages 69-80
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Editors and Affiliations

  • National Technical University of Athens, Greece

    Kostas Gavroglu, Pantelis Nicolacopoulos

  • Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

    Yorgos Goudaroulis

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Imre Lakatos and Theories of Scientific Change

  • Editors: Kostas Gavroglu, Yorgos Goudaroulis, Pantelis Nicolacopoulos

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3025-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1989

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2766-4Published: 28 February 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7860-3Published: 01 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-3025-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 465

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, History, general, Epistemology

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