[PhilPhys] Lakatos Award

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

LAKATOS AWARD 2007 

The London School of Economics announces that, no book having been
deemed by the Selectors to be sufficiently outstanding, there will be no
Lakatos Award for 2007. 

The Lakatos Award is given for an outstanding contribution to the
philosophy of science, widely interpreted, in the form of a book
published in English during the previous six years.  It was made
possible by a generous endowment from the Latsis Foundation.  The Award
is in memory of the former LSE professor, Imre Lakatos, and is
administered by an international Management Committee organised from the
LSE. 

The Committee decides the outcome of the Award competition on the advice
of an international, independent and anonymous panel of Selectors. 

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Nominations can now be made for the 2008 Lakatos Award, and must be
received by Monday 21st April 2008. The 2008 Award will be for a book
published in English with an imprint from 2002-2007 inclusive. A book
may, with the permission of the author, be nominated by any person of
recognised standing within the profession. 

For further details of the nomination procedure or more information on
the Lakatos Award 2008, contact Amy Brownhill on + 44 (0) 20 7955 7901,
or email A.Brownhill at lse.ac.uk 

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Imre Lakatos, who died in 1974 aged 51, had been Professor of Logic with
special reference to the Philosophy of Mathematics at LSE since 1969.
He joined the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method in
1960.  Born in Hungary in 1922, he graduated (in Physics, Mathematics
and Philosophy) from Debrecen University in 1944.  He then joined the
underground resistance.  (His mother and grandmother perished in
Auschwitz.)  After the War, he was active in the Communist Party and had
an influential position in the Ministry of Education.  In 1950 he was
arrested and spent the next three years as a political prisoner.  After
his release, he was given refuge in the Hungarian Academy of Science
where he translated western works in science and mathematics into
Hungarian.  After the suppression of the Hungarian uprising he escaped
to Vienna and from there, with the aid of a Rockefeller fellowship, on
to Cambridge, England.  He there wrote his (second) doctoral thesis out
of which grew his famous Proofs and Refutations (CUP, 1976).  Two
volumes of Philosophical Papers, edited by John Worrall and Gregory
Currie, appeared in 1978, also from CUP.

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