The methodology of scientific research programmes.Imre Lakatos -1978 - New York: Cambridge University Press.detailsImre 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his very influential but scattered papers on the philosophy of the physical sciences, and includes one important unpublished essay on the effect of Newton's scientific achievement. Volume II presents his work on the philosophy of mathematics (much of it unpublished), together with some critical essays on contemporary philosophers of science and some famous polemical writings on political and educational issues.Imre Lakatos had (...) an influence out of all proportion to the length of his philosophical career. 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'. Lakatos' ideas are now the focus of widespread and increasing interest, and these volumes should make possible for the first time their study as a whole and their proper assessment. (shrink)
(2 other versions)Criticism and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes.Imre Lakatos -1969 -Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 69 (1):149 - 186.detailsImre Lakatos; II—Criticism and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 69, Issue 1, 1 June 1969, Page.
Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery.Imre Lakatos,John Worrall &Elie Zahar (eds.) -1976 - Cambridge and London: Cambridge University Press.detailsProofs and Refutations is essential reading for all those interested in the methodology, the philosophy and the history of mathematics. Much of the book takes the form of a discussion between a teacher and his students. They propose various solutions to some mathematical problems and investigate the strengths and weaknesses of these solutions. Their discussion raises some philosophical problems and some problems about the nature of mathematical discovery or creativity.Imre Lakatos is concerned throughout to combat the classical picture (...) of mathematical development as a steady accumulation of established truths. He shows that mathematics grows instead through a richer, more dramatic process of the successive improvement of creative hypotheses by attempts to 'prove' them and by criticism of these attempts: the logic of proofs and refutations. (shrink)
The last inn.Imre Kertész -2015 -Common Knowledge 21 (3):545-553.detailsThis text, excerpted from a “diary novel” byImre Kertész, appeared in both Hungarian and German in 2014. Now suffering with an advanced stage of Parkinson's disease, the author considers it the last work that he will be able to complete.
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Mathematics, science, and epistemology.Imre Lakatos -1978 - New York: Cambridge University Press. Edited by Gregory Currie & John Worrall.detailsImre 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.
Ethical business institutions. How are they possible?Imre Ungvári Zrínyi -2006 -Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 5 (13):14-22.detailsInstitutions are a kind of social infrastructure that facilitates – or hinders – human co-ordination and allocation of resources. Thus they function as a rationality context, which simultaneously emerges from and governs human interactions. Business institutions, as they are related to human expectations, should promote the values of their stakeholders and, consequently, they are subjects of social and ethical accounting, auditing and reporting procedures. Ethical institutions make the good of their stakeholder groups part of the institution’s own good. They have (...) a clear vision and picture of integrity throughout the institution which is owned and embodied by top management, over time. Such a practice presumes that business institutions, e.g. corporations, are social cultures with character, which can exercise good or bad influence, depending on goals, policies structures, strategies that formalize relations among the individuals who build up corporations. For developing an ethical culture, corporations need a large scale of instruments as codes of ethics and other kinds of support structures throughout the organization to insure their adequate communication, oversight, enforcement, adjudication, and review. Between all these instruments, a special role could be played by the ethics officer and the ethics committee, ethics trainings, ethics audits but also by the implementation of responsibility and participatory decision making at lower levels in the organisation. (shrink)
A companion to critical and cultural theory.Imre Szeman,Sarah Blacker &Justin Sully (eds.) -2017 - Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.detailsThis Companion addresses the contemporary transformation of critical and cultural theory, with special emphasis on the way debates in the field have changed in recent decades. Features original essays from an international team of cultural theorists which offer fresh and compelling perspectives and sketch out exciting new areas of theoretical inquiry Thoughtfully organized into two sections – lineages and problematics – that facilitate its use both by students new to the field and advanced scholars and researchers Explains key schools and (...) movements clearly and succinctly, situating them in relation to broader developments in culture, society, and politics Tackles issues that have shaped and energized the field since the Second World War, with discussion of familiar and under-theorized topics related to living and laboring, being and knowing, and agency and belonging. (shrink)
Proofs and refutations: the logic of mathematical discovery.Imre Lakatos -2015 - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Edited by John Worrall & Elie Zahar.detailsThis influential book discusses the nature of mathematical discovery, development, methodology and practice, formingImre Lakatos's theory of 'proofs and refutations'.
Philosophical papers.Imre Lakatos -1978 - New York: Cambridge University Press.detailsv. 1. The methodology of scientific research programmes.--v. 2. Mathematics, science, and epistemology.
For and Against Method: Including Lakatos's Lectures on Scientific Method and the Lakatos-Feyerabend Correspondence.Imre Lakatos,Paul Feyerabend &Matteo Motterlini -1999 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Edited by Paul Feyerabend & Matteo Motterlini.detailsThe work that helped to determine Paul Feyerabend's fame and notoriety, Against Method,stemmed fromImre Lakatos's challenge: "In 1970Imre cornered me at a party. 'Paul,' he said, 'you have such strange ideas.
Compactness versus interior-to-edge ratio; two approaches for habitat's ranking.Attila R.Imre -2006 -Acta Biotheoretica 54 (1):21-26.detailsIn landscape ecology spatial descriptors (or indices) can be used to characterize habitats. Some of these descriptors can be used for habitat's ranking; this ranking is very important for conservation purposes. We would like to show that two traditional descriptors, namely the compactness and interior-to-edge ratio can give contradictory results. Being the second one is a more relevant descriptor, we would like to propose to avoid the further use the compactness in habitat's ranking.
"As Philolaos the Pythagorean Said": Philosophy, Geometry, Freedom.Imre Toth &Jon Kaplansky -1998 -Diogenes 46 (182):43-71.detailsIn his collection of anecdotes, Lives, Opinions, and Remarkable Sayings of the Most Famous Ancient Philosophers, Diogenes Laertius devotes a chapter to the life of Zeno of Elea. Zeno's reputation is based on his celebrated paradoxes, amply discussed by Aristotle: a moving body will never reach its (pre-defined) telos, since it first has to cover half (or more than half) the remaining distance; the faster will never catch up with the slower, since it first has to get to the point (...) from which the slower has just left. Zeno's style is laconic, like that of an Aesop fable. Maxima e minimis: there is no superfluous word. Everything needed to arrive at the conclusion is explicitly stated. (shrink)
An approach to intensional logic.Imre Ruzsa -1981 -Studia Logica 40 (3):269 - 287.detailsA system of tensed intensional logic excluding iterations of intensions is introduced. Instead of using the type symbols (for ‘sense’), extensional and intensional functor types are distinguished. A peculiarity of the semantics is the general acceptance of value-gaps (including truth-value-gaps): the possible semantic values (extensions) of extensional functors are partial functions. Some advantages of the system (relatively to R. Montague's intensional logic) are briefly indicated. Also, applications for modelling natural languages are illustrated by examples.