[PhilPhys] Lakatos Award 2018

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LAKATOS AWARD 2018






The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Lakatos Award, which goes to Sabina Leonelli for her book Data-Centric Biology: A Philosophical Study (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and Craig Callender for his book What Makes Time Special? (Oxford University Press, 2017).


The Lakatos Award is given for an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science, broadly construed, in the form of a book published in English during the previous five years. The Lakatos Award was made possible by a generous endowment from the Latsis Foundation, in memory of the former LSE professor Imre Lakatos. It is administered by an international Management Committee, which is organised from the LSE but entirely independent of LSE's Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method. The Committee decides the outcome of the Award competition on the basis of advice from an anonymous panel of Selectors who produce detailed reports on the shortlisted books.



The two prize winners will receive their awards and deliver their prize lectures at the LSE in the autumn of 2018, at a time and location to be confirmed later. The lectures will be open to the public.



Leonelli's book is praised by the Selectors as "a ground-breaking, richly interdisciplinary and scientifically-engaged study that productively reframes philosophical conceptions of data" and as "carefully researched, interesting and genuinely original". The book breaks new ground because its subject matter "is of enormous topical importance, and yet has been hardly addressed by philosophers of science at all" and it "expands the scope of philosophical inquiry to a number of questions that philosophers have neglected: data acquisition and handling, and the transmission of data through various processes of decontextualizing". This makes Leonelli "a pioneer in drawing attention to the variety of forms and uses of data, to the importance to scientists of the modes of data production and curation."



Callender's book is rated as an "ambitious and highly original contribution to the philosophy of time", which "displays nothing short of profound insight into the way physics informs old debates about time". It is "an important, powerful and original book. It displays an impressive mastery of the relevant physics and puts it to excellent use". The book is a "densely-argued, fascinating treatment of the problem of time, that breaks new ground" and "will be compulsory reading for anyone interested in the topic [of time], not just philosophers of physics". It "deserves special recognition for the way in which it integrates physics, metaphysics, and psychology" and for recruiting "an enormously wide range of interdisciplinary resources to make a case".
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Nominations are invited for the 2019 Lakatos Award, with a strict deadline of Monday 1 October 2018. The 2018 award will be for a book published in English with an imprint from 2013 to 2018 (inclusive). Any person of recognised standing within the philosophy of science or an allied field may nominate a book, with permission from the author(s). Self-nominations are not allowed.

Please address nominations, or any requests for further information, to the Award Administrator, Tom Hinrichsen, at t.a.hinrichsen at lse.ac.uk<mailto:t.a.hinrichsen 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 the 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, edited by John Worrall and Elie Zahar). Two volumes of Philosophical Papers, edited by John Worrall and Gregory Currie, appeared in 1978, also from CUP.

http://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/lakatos-award/





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