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Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason
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2001
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An exploration of the philosophy of science and mathematics of Hungarian emigre, Imre Lakatos, demonstrating its contemporary relevance.
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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.
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“I have rarely encountered a book with as many fresh and arresting ideas from so many seemingly disparate intellectual and historical contexts. With wit, verve, and concision, Kadvany combines an impressive command of the traditions of philosophy, science, mathematics, and economic theory with an impassioned and insightful mastery of the history of Hungary during the Communist era.”—Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley
“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 Lukács 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
“An important contribution to the literature on Lakatos. It provides significant insights into the background, nature, import and implications of Lakatos’ thought. . . .The most important book that has appeared on Lakatos’ work to date, and it contains much that is novel and of real interest and importance to philosophers and mathematicians. Every university library should have a copy.”
-- Paul Ernest Mathematical Reviews
“Extremely stimulating . . . . It should provoke a reevaluation of Lakatos’s work (especially on the history of mathematics), providing an answer to anyone who regards it as philosophically naive. It may also provide a route whereby those for whom German philosophy has been a largely closed book can begin to understand something of Hegel.”
-- Roger E. Backhouse History of Political Economy
"Challenging and appealing. . . . Kadvany’s analysis is rich, broad, and articulated. . . . The book is well written, eminently readable, and stands out as a major contribution between the boundaries of continental and Anglo-American philosophy of science and mathematics."
-- Matteo Motterlini Philosophia Mathematica
"In Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason, John Kadvany demonstrates the overwhelming importance of Lakatos's Hungarian background, and thereby also explains and illuminates Lakatos's philosophy. Kadvany's exposition does much to clarify and explain Lakatos's philosophy, thereby enhancing his reputation and also making his work, much of it still of vital significance, more accessible to a new public."
-- Jerome R. Ravetz Inquiry
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Contents
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Analytic Contents
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Preface
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Introduction: Who Was Imre Lakatos? Ki volt Lakatos Imre?
1 - I A Mathematical Bildungsroman
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1 The Mathematical Present as History
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2 The Method of Proofs and Refutations
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3 Mathematical Skepticism
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4 Between Formal and Informal
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5 Reason Inverted
131 - II A Changing Logic of Scientific Discovery
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6 Kuhn, Popper, Feyerabend, Lakatos
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7 A Historiographical Toolkit
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8 Contradiction and Hindsight
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9 Reason in History
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10 A Changing Logic
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11 Classical Political Economy as a Research Programme
237 - III Magyarország/Hungary
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12 Hungary 1956 and the Inverted World
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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April 9, 2001
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9780822380443
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400
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14 photographs, 3 figures
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