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Title: For and Against Method: Including Lakatos's Lectures on Scientific Method and the Lakatos-Feyerabend Correspondence

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Paperback, 2000

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Language:        English

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Length:        451 Pages
Weight:        1.8 Pounds
Height:         8 Inches
Width:          4.3 Inches
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The work that helped to determine Paul Feyerabend's fame and notoriety, Against Method, stemmed from Imre Lakatos's challenge: In 1970 Imre cornered me at a party. 'Paul, ' he said, 'you have such strange ideas. Why don t you write them down? I shall write a reply, we publish the whole thing and I promise you -- we shall have a lot of fun.'" Although Lakatos died before he could write his reply, For and Against Method reconstructs his original counterarguments from lectures and correspondence previously unpublished in English, allowing us to enjoy the "fun" two of this century's most eminent philosophers had, matching their wits and ideas on the subject of the scientific method. For and Against Method opens with an imaginary dialogue between Lakatos and Feyerabend, which Matteo Motterlini has constructed, based on their published works, to synthesize their positions and arguments. Part one presents the transcripts of the last lectures on method that Lakatos delivered. Part two, Feyerabend's response, consists of a previously published essay on anarchism, which began the attack on Lakatos's position that Feyerabend later continued in Against Method. The third and longest section consists of the correspondence Lakatos and Feyerabend exchanged on method and many other issues and ideas, as well as the events of their daily lives, between 1968 and Lakatos's death in 1974.



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"[FOR AND AGAINST METHOD] is very well done, succinctly setting out Lakatos' For and Feyerabend's Against....The correspondence is conducted mostly between Berkeley, where Feyerabend is manning his lonely outpost, and the LSE, where Lakatos has moved centre stage. Readers who like gossip will not be dissapointed....Lakatos and Feyerabend were fascinating, irritating individuals. Thank goodness for the Britain and America that gave them succor..."
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Book Details Summary: The title of this book is For and Against Method: Including Lakatos's Lectures on Scientific Method and the Lakatos-Feyerabend Correspondence and it was written by Paul K. Feyerabend, Imre Lakatos, Matteo Motterlini. This edition of For and Against Method: Including Lakatos's Lectures on Scientific Method and the Lakatos-Feyerabend Correspondence is in a Hardcover format. This books publish date is October 1999 and it has a suggested retail price of $46. There are 451 pages in the book and it was published by Univ of Chicago Pr. The 10 digit ISBN is 0226467740 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780226467740. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.