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Our Greek colleagues, in Greece and abroad, must know (indeed they
do know) how pleasant it is to recognize the renaissance of the
philosophy of science among them with this fine collection.
Classical and modern, technical and humane, historical and logical,
admirably original and respectfully traditional, these essays will
deserve close study by philosophical readers throughout the world.
Classical scholars and historians of science likewise will be
stimulated, and the historians of ancient as well as modern
philosophers too. Reviewers might note one or more of the
contributions as of special interest, or as subject to critical
wrestling (that ancient tribute); we will simply congratulate
Pantelis Nicolacopoulos for assembling the essays and presenting
the book, and we thank the contributors for their works and for
their happy agreement to let their writings appear in this book. R.
S. C. xi INTRODUCTORY REMARKS Neither philosophy nor science is new
to Greece, but philosophy of science is. There are broader
(socio-historical) and more specific (academic) reasons that
explain, to a satisfactory degree, both the under-development of
philosophy and history of science in Greece until recently and its
recent development to international standards. It is, perhaps, not
easy to have in mind the fact that the modem Greek State is only
160 years old (during quite a period of which it was consider ably
smaller than it is today, its present territory having been settled
after World War II)."
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.
Our Greek colleagues, in Greece and abroad, must know (indeed they
do know) how pleasant it is to recognize the renaissance of the
philosophy of science among them with this fine collection.
Classical and modern, technical and humane, historical and logical,
admirably original and respectfully traditional, these essays will
deserve close study by philosophical readers throughout the world.
Classical scholars and historians of science likewise will be
stimulated, and the historians of ancient as well as modern
philosophers too. Reviewers might note one or more of the
contributions as of special interest, or as subject to critical
wrestling (that ancient tribute); we will simply congratulate
Pantelis Nicolacopoulos for assembling the essays and presenting
the book, and we thank the contributors for their works and for
their happy agreement to let their writings appear in this book. R.
S. C. xi INTRODUCTORY REMARKS Neither philosophy nor science is new
to Greece, but philosophy of science is. There are broader
(socio-historical) and more specific (academic) reasons that
explain, to a satisfactory degree, both the under-development of
philosophy and history of science in Greece until recently and its
recent development to international standards. It is, perhaps, not
easy to have in mind the fact that the modem Greek State is only
160 years old (during quite a period of which it was consider ably
smaller than it is today, its present territory having been settled
after World War II)."
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.
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