For and Against Method Including Lakatos's Lectures on Scientific Method and the Lakatos-Feyerabend Correspondence

Name: For and Against Method Including Lakatos's Lectures on Scientific Method and the Lakatos-Feyerabend Correspondence
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ISBN: 9780226467757

ISBN-10: 0226467759

ISBN-13: 9780226467757

Edition: 1999

Authors: Imre Lakatos, Matteo Motterlini, Paul Feyerabend

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The work that helped to determine Paul Feyerabend's fame and notoriety, Against Method, stemmed from Imre Lakatos's challenge: "In 1970 Imre cornered me at a party. 'Paul,' he said, 'you have such strange ideas. Why don't you write them down? I shall write a reply, we publish the whole thing and I promise you--we shall have a lot of fun.' " Although Lakatos died before he could write his reply, For and Against Method reconstructs his original counter-arguments from lectures and correspondence previously unpublished in English, allowing us to enjoy the "fun" two of this century's most eminent philosophers had, matching their wits and ideas on the subject of the scientific method. For and…

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List price: $46.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 459
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.91" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: A Dialogue



Lectures on Scientific Method, Imre Lakatos Lecture



The Demarcation Problem Lecture



The Theological Nature of Scientific Standards Lecture



Inductivism and Its Historical Myths Lecture



Comparing Demarcation Criteria: Verificationism and Conventionalism Lecture



The Limits of Conventionalism Lecture



Popper and the Rules of the Game of Science Lecture



Falsification and Intellectual Honesty Lecture



The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes Editor's Note: The Value of Novelty



Theses on Anarchism, Paul Feyerabend



The Lakatos-Feyerabend Correspondence (1968-1974)



Appendices



On Rearing Scholars




Letters to the Director of the Department of Philosophy




The Intellectuals' Betrayal of Reason




Letter to His Editors



Biography



Biography


Bibliography


Index