Appraising Lakatos

Introduction. I: In Defence of Scientific Rationality. The Propositional Content of the Popper-Lakatos Rift; J. Watkins (deceased). Lakatos' Criticism of Popper; D. Gillies. Professor Lakatos between the Hegelian Devil and the Popperian Deep Blue Sea; M. Motterlini. Explaining Scientific Progress: Lakatos's Methodological Account of Kuhnian Patterns of Theory Change; M. Carrier. Lakatos, Reason and History; G. Forrai. `Heuristic Power' and the `Logic of Scientific Discovery': why MSRP is less than half the answer; J. Worrall. Lakatos on Crucial Experiments and the History of Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics; P. Szegedi. II: Underway to a Philosophy of Contemporary Mathematics. Argumentation and the Mathematical Process; D. Corfield. Towards an Evolutionary Account of Conceptuel Change in Mathematics: Proofs and Refutations and the Axiomatic Variation of Concepts; T. Mormann. What Lakatos Could Teach the Mathematical Physicist; M. Stöltzner. Lakatos' Epistemology of Mathematics; T. Koetsier. Lakatos' Methdology between Logic and Dialectic; L. Kvasz. Mathematical Heuristic - Lakatos and Pólya; O. Kiss. Lakatos and Aspects of Mathematics Education; H.-C. Reichel. III: Life and Politics. `The Unforgiven'. Imre Lakatos Life in Hungary; J. Long. Lakatos and Lukacs; L. Rpolyi. Lakatos's Political Rewakening; L. Congdon. IV: Imre Lakatos's Hungarian Dissertation. A Documentation arranged by Gábor Kutrovátz. V: Bibliography: Lakatos' Hungarian papers between 1946-1956.