28 Oct
1997
28 Oct
'97
2:53 p.m.
Lakatos's 75 Years. An Anniversary Meeting
October 30-31, 1997, Budapest
Partially supported by the Austrian-Hungarian Joint
Action Foundation
Organized by the
Deptartment of History and Philosophy of Science,
Roland Eotvos University, Budapest
Insitute Vienna Circle, Vienna, Austria
Imre Lakatos, one of the most important figures and most
controversial persons in philosophy of science, was born
on November 7, 1922. On this occasion we hold an
international meeting devoted to the celebration and
critical discussion of Lakatos philosophy of
science/philosophy of mathematics, as well as the better
understanding of his life.
Conference Venue:
MTA Tortenettudomanyi Intezet, I. Uri utca 53. II.
Tanacsterem (Institute of Historical Sciences of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 53 Uri street [First
District, Castle Hill], Lecture room on the second
floor).
Conference Programme:
1st day (October 30)
9:30 Opening (George Kampis)
10:00 John Worrall (LSE, London): "'Positive
heuristic' and the 'Logic of Scientific
Discovery': why MSRP is no more than half the
answer"
11:00 David Corfield (Leeds Metropolitan Univ.):
"Criticism and the mathematical process"
lunch break
14:00 John Watkins (LSE, London): "Lakatos's
Intellectual Break with Popper"
15:00 Olga Kiss (Univ. Economics, Budapest):
"Lakatos and the philosophy of mathematics"
coffee break
16:00 Martin Carrier (Uni Heidelberg): "Explaining
Scientific Progress: Lakatos's Methodological
Account of Kuhnian Patterns of Theory Change"
17:00 Thomas Mormann (Uni Munchen): "Lakatos and
the Dialectic of Accommodation and Resistance
in the Evolution of Mathematical Concepts"
2nd day (October 31)
10:00 Ladislav Kvasz (Comenius Univ., Bratislava):
"Imre Lakatos: Between logic and dialectic part
2 - elements of dialectic in the methodology of
scientific research programmes"
11:00 Matteo Motterlini (Univ. Milan): "Professor
Lakatos between the Hegelian devil and the
Popperian deep blue sea"
lunch break
14:00 Andreas Huttemann (Uni Heidelberg):
"Emergence and Reduction"
14:30 Tihamer Margitay (Univ. Polytechnics,
Budapest): "Rationality and Objectivity"
15:00 Jancis Long (Univ. Medicine, Budapest): "The
Unforgiven"
(short breaks of approx. 5. min can be inserted between
the talks without prior scheduling)
Panel Discussion: The Uncommon Life of Lakatos
Oct. 31., 16:15 -
Convenor: Lee Congdon (James Madison Univ.)
Panelists include A. Bandy, S. Kantorne, J. Long, G.
Pallo, G. Vajda and others.