Imre Lakatos

The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes

Herausgeber: Currie, Gregory; Worrall, John

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection exhibits and confirms the originality, range and the essential unity of his work. It demonstrates too the force and spirit he brought to every issue with which he engaged, from his most abstract mathematical work to his passionate 'Letter to the director of the LSE'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 1980
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9780521280310
• ISBN-10: 0521280311
• Artikelnr.: 22141918

Inhaltsangabe

Editors' introduction
Introduction: science and pseudoscience
1. Falsification and the methodology of scientific research programmes
2. History of science and its rational reconstructions
3. Popper on demarcation and induction
4. Why did Copernicus's research programme supersede Ptolemy's?
5. Newton's effect on scientific standards
References
Lakatos bibliography
Indexes.