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Imre Lakatos and Paul Feyerabend

For and Against Method

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

Edited and with an Introduction by Matteo Motterlini
459 pages, 7 halftones, 7 line drawings  6 x 9  © 1999

Cloth $46.00

ISBN: 9780226467740   Published October 1999

Paper $35.00

ISBN: 9780226467757   Published December 2000

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Dialogue
1. Lectures on Scientific Method, Imre Lakatos
Lecture 1. The Demarcation Problem
Lecture 2. The Theological Nature of Scientific Standards
Lecture 3. Inductivism and Its Historical Myths
Lecture 4. Comparing Demarcation Criteria: Verificationism and Conventionalism
Lecture 5. The Limits of Conventionalism
Lecture 6. Popper and the Rules of the Game of Science
Lecture 7. Falsification and Intellectual Honesty
Lecture 8. The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes
Editor's Note: The Value of Novelty
2. Theses on Anarchism, Paul Feyerabend
3. The Lakatos-Feyerabend Correspondence (1968-1974)
4. Appendices
Appendix A. On Rearing Scholars, Imre Lakatos
Appendix B. Letters to the Director of the Department of Philosophy, Paul Feyerabend
Appendix C. The Intellectuals' Betrayal of Reason, Imre Lakatos
Appendix D. Letter to His Editors, Imre Lakatos
Imre Lakatos: Biography
Paul Feyerabend: Biography
Bibliography
Index
Subjects



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