Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason

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Philosophy of science/Intellectual history
The Hungarian émigré Imre Lakatos (i922-1974) 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.
An influential communist intellectual imprisoned for years by the Stalinist regime, Lakatos escaped Hungary following the failed 1956 Revolution. Kadvany argues that this intellectual and political past animated Lakatos's English-language philosophy, which integrated a penetrating vision of Hegelian ideas with rigorous analysis of mathematical... Tovább

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Philosophy of science/Intellectual history
The Hungarian émigré Imre Lakatos (i922-1974) 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.
An influential communist intellectual imprisoned for years by the Stalinist regime, Lakatos escaped Hungary following the failed 1956 Revolution. Kadvany argues that this intellectual and political past animated Lakatos's English-language philosophy, which 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. Vissza