Searching for the Holy in the Ascent of Imre Lakatos  

Oleh:

Wettersten, John

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Philosophy of the Social Sciences vol. 34 no. 1 (Mar. 2004), page 84-150.
Topik: Lakatos; Popper; Agassi; research program; historiography
Fulltext: 84PSS341.pdf (269.38KB)

Isi artikel

Bernard Lavor and John Kadvany argue that Lakatos’s Hegelian approach to the philosophy of mathematics and science enabled him to overcome all competing philosophies. His use of the approach Hegel developed in his Phenomenologyenabled him to show how mathematics and science develop, how they are open-ended, and that they are not subject to rules, even though their rationality may be understood after the fact. Hegel showed Lakatos how to falsify the past to makeprogress in the present.Acritique based on normal standards of fairness and honesty finds this argument an attack on rationality. The similarity of the methods Lakatos used as a Stalinist politician and those he used as a philosopher are pointed out. The Hegelian interpretation of his philosophy is an excuse for his misdeeds.

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