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Tables of Contents for Appraising Lakatos
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
ix
I. In Defence of Scientific Rationality
The Propositional Content of the Popper--Lakatos Rift
3
10
Lakatos' Criticisms of Popper
13
10
Professor Lakatos Between the Hegelian Devil and the Popperian Deep Blue Sea
23
30
Explaining Scientific Progress: Lakatos' Methodological Account of Kuhnian Patterns of Theory Change
53
20
Lakatos, Reason and History
73
12
``Heuristic Power'' and the ``Logic of Scientific Discovery'': Why the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes is Less Than Half the Story
85
16
Lakatos on Crucial Experiments and the History of Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics
101
14
II. Underway to a Philosophy of Contemporary Mathematics
Argumentation and the Mathematical Process
115
24
Towards an Evolutionary Account of Conceptual Change in Mathematics: Proofs and Refutations and the Axiomatic Variation of Concepts
139
18
What Lakatos Could Teach the Mathematical Physicist
157
32
Lakatos' Mitigated Scepticism in the Philosophy of Mathematics
189
22
Lakatos' Methodology Between Logic and Dialectic
211
32
Mathematical Heuristic -- Lakatos and Polya
243
12
Lakatos and Aspects of Mathematics Education
255
8
III. Life and Politics
The Unforgiven: Imre Lakatos' Life in Hungary
263
40
Lakatos and Lukacs
303
36
Lakatos' Political Reawakening
339
14
IV. Imre Lakatos' Hungarian Dissertation
A Documentation Arranged
353
22
Lakatos' Hungarian Papers Between 1946--1956
375
2
Index of Names
377