Essays in Memory of Imre Lakatos.

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Imre Lakatos: Philosopher of Mathematics and Philosopher of Science / John Worrall -- The Lakatosian Revolution / Joseph Agassi -- Immediate Perception / D.M. Armstrong -- On Imre Lakatos / W.W. Bartley, III -- Lakatos One and Lakatos Two: An Appreciation / William Berkson -- William Whewell and the Concept of Scientific Revolution / I.B. Cohen -- How Can One Testimony Corroborate Another? / L. Jonathan Cohen -- Constraints on Science / R.S. Cohen -- Research Programs, Rationality, and Ethics / Gene D'Amour -- Introduction: Culture, Cultural Systems, and Science / Yehuda Elkana -- On the Critique of Scientific Reason / Paul K. Feyerabend -- The Young Einstein and the Old Einstein / Arthur Fine -- An Ethic of Cognition / Ernest Gellner. Instrumentalism and Its Critique: A Reappraisal / Jerzy Giedymin -- Imre Lakatos: Some Recollections / Marjorie Grene -- Is Falsifiability the Touchstone of Scientific Rationality? Karl Popper versus Inductivism / Adolf Grunbaum -- Ancient Geometrical Analysis and Modern Logic / Jaakko Hintikka and Unto Remes -- The Development of Logical Probability / Colin Howson -- Descartes' Rules of Impact and Their Criticism: An Example of the Structure of Processes in the History of Science / Kurt Hubner -- Toulmin and the Rationality of Science / I.C. Jarvie -- Participation, 'Authenticity' and the Contemporary Cision of man, Law and Society / Eugene Kamenka and Alice Erh-Soontay -- Rational Reconstructions / Noretta Koertge -- A Paradox for the Birds / Isaac Levi -- Mathematics as a Critical Enterprise / Peggy Marchi. The Fertility of Theory and the Unit for Appraisal in Science / Ernan McMullin -- The Ambivalence of Scientists / Robert K. Merton -- Method or Madness? / Alan Musgrave -- Novel Predictions as a Criterion of Merit / H.R. Post -- Whither Physical Objects? / Willard Quine -- Popperian Philosophy of Science as an Antidote Against Relativism / Gerard Radnitzky -- Conditions of Progress and the Comparability of Theories / Erhard Scheibe -- Comments on Two Epistemological Theses of Thomas Kuhn / Abner Shimony -- Leibniz's Program for the Development of Logic / Fred Sommers -- On Compton's Research Program / Roger H. Stuewer -- Inquiring Systems and Paradigms / Hakan Tornebohm -- History, Praxis and the 'Third World'. Ambiguities in Lakatos' Theory of Methodology / Stephen Toulmin -- Against Some Methods / John Tucker -- The Human Condition: Two Criticisms of Hobbes / J.W.N. Watkins. The Relation Between Philosophy of Science and History of Science / Marx W. Wartofsky -- Cosmology and Logic-An Intractable Issue? / Wolfgang Yourgrau.