Imre Lakatos and the Guises of ReasonDuke University Press, 09/04/2001 - 378 من الصفحات The Hungarian émigré Imre Lakatos (1922–1974) earned a worldwide reputation through the influential philosophy of science debates involving Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, and Sir Karl Popper. In Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason John Kadvany shows that embedded in Lakatos’s English-language work is a remarkable historical philosophy rooted in his Hungarian past. Below the surface of his life as an Anglo-American philosopher of science and mathematics, Lakatos covertly introduced novel transformations of Hegelian and Marxist ideas about historiography, skepticism, criticism, and rationality. Lakatos escaped Hungary following the failed 1956 Revolution. Before then, he had been an influential Communist intellectual and was imprisoned for years by the Stalinist regime. He also wrote a lost doctoral thesis in the philosophy of science and participated in what was criminal behavior in all but a legal sense. Kadvany argues that this intellectual and political past animates Lakatos’s English-language philosophy, and that, whether intended or not, Lakatos integrated a penetrating vision of Hegelian ideas with rigorous analysis of mathematical proofs and controversial histories of science. Including new applications of Lakatos’s ideas to the histories of mathematical logic and economics and providing lucid exegesis of many of Hegel’s basic ideas, Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason is an exciting reconstruction of ideas and episodes from the history of philosophy, science, mathematics, and modern political history. |
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The Mathematical Present as History | 25 |
The Method of Proofs and Refutations | 47 |
Mathematical Skepticism | 87 |
Between Formal and Informal | 113 |
Reason Inverted | 133 |
A Changing Logic of Scientific Discovery | 147 |
Kuhn Popper Feyerabend Lakatos | 149 |
A Historiographical Toolkit | 159 |
Reason in History | 215 |
A Changing Logic | 229 |
Classical Political Economy as a Research Programme | 239 |
MagyarorszagHungary | 265 |
Hungary 1956 and the Inverted World | 267 |
Notes | 319 |
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الصفحة 14 - Meanwhile, if the fear of falling into error sets up a mistrust of Science, which in the absence of such scruples gets on with the work itself, and actually cognizes something, it is hard to see why we should not turn round and mistrust this very mistrust. Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?