Mathematics, Science and Epistemology: Volume 2, Philosophical Papers

Imre Lakatos' philosophical and scientific papers are published here in two volumes.

Imre Lakatos (Author), John Worrall (Edited by), Gregory Currie (Edited by)

9780521280303, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 16 October 1980

296 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.41 kg

' … a well-produced book that every philosopher of science or mathematics will wish to have.' Philosophy

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his very influential but scattered papers on the philosophy of the physical sciences, and includes one important unpublished essay on the effect of Newton's scientific achievement. Volume 2 presents his work on the philosophy of mathematics (much of it unpublished), together with some critical essays on contemporary philosophers of science and some famous polemical writings on political and educational issues.

Editors' introduction
Part I. Philosophy of Mathematics: 1. Infinite regress and foundations of mathematics
2. A renaissance of empiricism in the recent philosophy of mathematics?
3. Cauchy and the continuum: the significance of non-standard analysis for the history and philosophy of mathematics
4. What does a mathematical proof prove?
5. The method of analysis-synthesis
Part II. Critical Papers: 6. The problem of appraising scientific theories: three approaches
7. Necessity, Kineale and Popper
8. Changes in the problem of inductive logic
9. On Popperian historiography
10. Anomalies versus 'crucial experiments'
11. Understanding Toulmin
Part III. Science and Education: 12. A letter to the director of the London School of Economics
13. The teaching of the history of science
14. The social responsibility of science
References
Lakatos bibliography
Indexes.

Subject Areas: Philosophy of science [PDA], Social & political philosophy [HPS]