Cambridge University Press , Philosophical Papers Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1987 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's yellow and red, black wrappers grand In-8 2 vol. - 553 pages
Reprinted edition, 1986-1987 Contents, Chapitres : Volume 1 (1986), Contents, Editor's introduction, viii, Text, 250 pages - Volume 2 (1987), Contents, Editor's introduction, x, Text, 285 pages - Volume 1. Editor's introduction - Introduction : Science and pseudoscience - Falsification and the methodology of scientific research programmes - History of science and its rational reconstructions - Popper on demarcation and induction - with Elie Zahar, Why did Copernicus's research programme supersede Ptolemy's - Newton's effect on scientific standards - References - Lakatos bibliography - Index - Volume 2. - 1. Philosophy of Mathematics : Infinite regress and foundations of mathematics - A renaissance of empiricism in the recent philosophy of mathematics ? - Cauchy and the continuum : the significance of non-standard analysis for the history and philosophy of mathematics - What does a mathematical proof prove ? - The method of analysis-synthesis - 2. Critical Papers : The problem of appraising scientific theories, 3 approaches - Necessity, Kneale and Popper - Changes in the problem of inductive logic - On Popperian historiography - Anomalies versus crucial experiments, a rejoinder of Professor Grünbaum - Understanding Toulmin - 3. Science and Education : Letter to the director of the London School of Economics - Teaching of the history of science - The social responsibility of science - References - Lakatos bibliography - Index complete set in 2 homogeneous volumes of the 1986-1987 edition of Lakatos' Philosophical Papers, near fine condiiton, wrappers clean, inside is fine and unmarked, a rather nice copy