Imre Lakatos and Theories of Scientific Change (Hardcover, 1989 ed.)

How happy it is to recall Imre Lakatos. Now, fifteen years after his death, his intelligence, wit, generosity are vivid. In the Preface to the book of Essays in Memory of Imre Lakatos (Boston Studies, 39, 1976), the editors wrote: ... Lakatos was a man in search of rationality in all of its forms. He thought he had found it in the historical development of scientific knowledge, yet he also saw rationality endangered everywhere. To honor Lakatos is to honor his sharp and aggressive criticism as well as his humane warmth and his quick wit. He was a person to love and to struggle with. The book before us carries old and new friends of that Lakatosian spirit further into the issues which he wanted to investigate. That the new friends include a dozen scientific, historical and philosophical scholars from Greece would have pleased Lakatos very much, and with an essay from China, he would have smiled all the more. But the key lies in the quality of these papers, and in the imaginative organization of the conference at Thessaloniki in summer 1986 which worked so well.

General

Imprint:	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 111
Release date:	July 2003
First published:	February 1989
Editors:	K. Gavroglu • Yorgos Goudaroulis • P. Nicolacopoulos
Dimensions:	297 x 210 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	465
Edition:	1989 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-90-277-2766-4
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science
LSN:	90-277-2766-X
Barcode:	9789027727664

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