Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason

"Not merely a uniquely insightful account of the life and work of one of this century's most original philosophers, this book provides a glimpse of a vanished intellectual world, that of Middle Europe before the catastrophes. Finding Georg Lukacs and Hegel in Lakatos does more than elucidate Lakatos's thought; it provides us with an entry to a whole different intellectual style. As interpreted by Kadvany, Lakatos functions as a sort of Rosetta Stone to that brilliant but now quite foreign intellectual culture. A brilliant tour de force."--Jerome Ravetz, author of "Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems"

List of contents

Analytic Contents

Preface

I. A Mathematical Bildungsroman
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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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: John Kadvany
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.04.2001
• EAN: 9780822326496
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2649-6
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 234 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 653 g
• Series: Science and Cultural Theory
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Wissenschaftsphilosophie und -theorie