2 The Method of Proofs and Refutations

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Analytic Contents xi
4. Preface xvii
5. Introduction: Who Was Imre Lakatos? Ki volt Lakatos Imre? 1
6. I A Mathematical Bildungsroman
7. 1 The Mathematical Present as History 21
8. 2 The Method of Proofs and Refutations 45
9. 3 Mathematical Skepticism 85
10. 4 Between Formal and Informal 111
11. 5 Reason Inverted 131
12. II A Changing Logic of Scientific Discovery
13. 6 Kuhn, Popper, Feyerabend, Lakatos 147
14. 7 A Historiographical Toolkit 157
15. 8 Contradiction and Hindsight 189
16. 9 Reason in History 213
17. 10 A Changing Logic 227
18. 11 Classical Political Economy as a Research Programme 237
19. III Magyarország/Hungary
20. 12 Hungary 1956 and the Inverted World 263
21. Notes 317
22. Bibliography 359
23. Index 371