Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason - Couverture souple

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Kadvany, John

 
9780822326496: Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason
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ISBN 10 : 0822326493 ISBN 13 : 9780822326496
Editeur : Duke University Press, 2001

Synopsis

The Hungarian émigré Imre Lakatos (1922-1974) earned a worldwide reputation through the influential philosophy of science debates involving Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, and Sir Karl Popper. In Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason John Kadvany shows that embedded in Lakatos's English-language work is a remarkable historical philosophy rooted in his Hungarian past. Below the surface of his life as an Anglo-American philosopher of science and mathematics, Lakatos covertly introduced novel transformations of Hegelian and Marxist ideas about historiography, skepticism, criticism, and rationality.
Lakatos escaped Hungary following the failed 1956 Revolution. Before then, he had been an influential Communist intellectual and was imprisoned for years by the Stalinist regime. He also wrote a lost doctoral thesis in the philosophy of science and participated in what was criminal behavior in all but a legal sense. Kadvany argues that this intellectual and political past animates Lakatos's English-language philosophy, and that, whether intended or not, Lakatos integrated a penetrating vision of Hegelian ideas with rigorous analysis of mathematical proofs and controversial histories of science.
Including new applications of Lakatos's ideas to the histories of mathematical logic and economics and providing lucid exegesis of many of Hegel's basic ideas, Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason is an exciting reconstruction of ideas and episodes from the history of philosophy, science, mathematics, and modern political history.

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À propos de l?auteur

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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Éditeur
Duke University Press
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0822326493
ISBN 13 
9780822326496
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
400
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ISBN 10 :  0822326604 ISBN 13 :  9780822326601
Editeur : Duke University Press, 2001
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