Mathematics, science, and epistemology
By: Imre Lakatos ; edited by John Worrall and Gregory Currie.
Series: His Philosophical papers ; v. 2
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Mathematics -- Philosophy; Science -- Philosophy
Description: 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his very influential but scattered papers on the philosophy of the physical sciences, and includes one important unpublished essay on the effect of Newton's scientific achievement. Volume 2 presents his work on the philosophy of mathematics (much of it unpublished), together with some critical essays on contemporary philosophers of science and some famous polemical writings on political and educational issues.
Notes: "Lakatos bibliography": p. 274-276.
Bibliography: p. 259-273.
Includes indexes.