[PhilPhys] Lakatos Research Fellowships at LSE

[R.P.Frigg at lse.ac.uk]

Lakatos Research Fellowships at LSE

An extensive archive of Imre Lakatos's papers and letters - mostly in English, but some in Hungarian - is held in the British Library for Political and Economic Science at the London School of Economics.  Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, Research Fellowships to a total amount of US$ 25,000 will be available in the calendar year 2007 for scholars wishing to pursue some research project on Lakatos and/or his contemporaries that requires consultation of the archive. The Fellowships will be held at the LSE Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method (http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/philosophyLogicAndScientificMethod/) which will also provide facilities for the Fellows. The awards will aim to cover the recipients' travel and a stipend of up to £300/week for junior scholars (PhD students) and up to £550/week for senior scholars for other expenses during their stay in London. The length of the stay should be between a week and two months. Fellows will be required to submit a brief report on the outcome of their research.
 
Applications should be sent by e-mail to Professor John Worrall at j.worrall at lse.ac.uk  (subject: Lakatos Research Fellowship). The application letter should outline the research proposal, and include a brief cv and a clear statement of proposed time and length of visit to London.  The deadline for applications is August 10 2007 and applicants will be informed of the outcome as soon as possible.
 
Notes for prospective candidates: The LSE Lakatos Archive contains Lakatos's notes and working papers dating from 1945 and other personal documents, including his correspondence from 1956 with some 1000+ correspondents including Agassi, Carnap, Feyerabend, Kalmar, Koestler, Kuhn, Polanyi, Polya, Popper, Quine, Szabo, Tarski, and many other figures of the philosophical, intellectual and academic establishments of the time. It also includes correspondence in his capacity as Editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science from 1971. The Archive has recently acquired copies of important documents from Lakatos's Hungarian state security police files that remained 'live' until after his death and also summary reports on their contents in the recently opened Hungarian state archives. The contents of the Lakatos Archive listed in its LSE British Library Catalogue can be inspected online and its Catalogue found from the Library's Archives/Archives Catalogue Menu on the LSE website at www.lse.ac.uk, except for the names and details of its 1000+ correspondents' files in Section Lakatos/13 that are only available by request from the Archive at document at lse.ac.uk  . The LSE British Library also holds most of Lakatos's last personal library - The Lakatos Collection - whose Catalogue can be inspected online at http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/whinthli/Lakatos.htm, and which includes many Lakatos-annotated books held separately in the Lakatos Archive. Further details and useful references about Lakatos for researchers can be found at the LSE 'Lakatos' website www.lse.ac.uk/lakatos , and also at  http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/philosophyLogicAndScientificMethod/lakatos/LakatosAwardWinner.htm .
Details of previous Lakatos Archive Research Fellows and their research projects can be seen at http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/CPNSS/people/LakatosResearchFellows.htm .
 





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