For and against method : including Lakatos's lectures on scientific method and the Lakatos-Feyerabend correspondence / Imre Lakatos and Paul Feyerabend ; edited and with an introduction by Matteo Motterlini
- Bib ID:
- 1543833
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lakatos, Imre
- Description:
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999
- xi, 451 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0226467740 (alkaline paper)
- 0226467759 (alkaline paper) (paperback)
- Full contents:
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- Introduction: A Dialogue / Matteo Motterlini
- 1. Lectures on Scientific Method / Imre Lakatos. Lecture 1. The Demarcation Problem. Lecture 2. The Theological Nature of Scientific Standards. Lecture 3. Inductivism and Its Historical Myths. Lecture 4. Comparing Demarcation Criteria: Verificationism and Conventionalism. Lecture 5. The Limits of Conventionalism. Lecture 6. Popper and the Rules of the Game of Science. Lecture 7. Falsification and Intellectual Honesty. Lecture 8. The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes
- Editor's Note: The Value of Novelty
- 2. Theses on Anarchism / Paul Feyerabend
- 3. The Lakatos-Feyerabend Correspondence (1968-1974)
- App. A. On Rearing Scholars / Imre Lakatos
- App. B. Letters to the Director of the Department of Philosophy / Paul Feyerabend
- App. C. The Intellectuals' Betrayal of Reason / Imre Lakatos
- App. D. Letter to His Editors / Imre Lakatos
- Imre Lakatos: Biography
- Paul Feyerabend: Biography.
- Introduction: A Dialogue / Matteo Motterlini
- 1. Lectures on Scientific Method / Imre Lakatos. Lecture 1. The Demarcation Problem. Lecture 2. The Theological Nature of Scientific Standards. Lecture 3. Inductivism and Its Historical Myths. Lecture 4. Comparing Demarcation Criteria: Verificationism and Conventionalism. Lecture 5. The Limits of Conventionalism. Lecture 6. Popper and the Rules of the Game of Science. Lecture 7. Falsification and Intellectual Honesty. Lecture 8. The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes
- Editor's Note: The Value of Novelty
- 2. Theses on Anarchism / Paul Feyerabend
- 3. The Lakatos-Feyerabend Correspondence (1968-1974)
- App. A. On Rearing Scholars / Imre Lakatos
- App. B. Letters to the Director of the Department of Philosophy / Paul Feyerabend
- App. C. The Intellectuals' Betrayal of Reason / Imre Lakatos
- App. D. Letter to His Editors / Imre Lakatos
- Imre Lakatos: Biography
- Paul Feyerabend: Biography.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-430) and index.
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