Dear Cambridge philosophers of Science, Tomorrow (Wednesday, today as most of you read this) is the fourth meeting for CamPoS, which happens as usual at 1 p.m. in the HPS department in seminar room 2 in the basement. Eric Martin from Baylor will present '"The battle is on." Lakatos, Feyerabend, and the Student Protests'. His abstract is below.
Sincerely, J. Brian Pitts Abstract: This paper shows how late 1960's student protests influenced the thought of Imre Lakatos and Paul Feyerabend. I argue that student movements shaped their work from this period, specifically Lakatos' "Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes" and Feyerabend's Against Method. Archival documents show that their political environments at London and Berkeley inflected their writing on scientific method, entrenching Lakatos' search for a rationalist account of theory change, and encouraging Feyerabend’s "anarchistic" theory of knowledge. -- J. Brian Pitts Senior Research Associate Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge jb...@cam.ac.uk Ph.D., Philosophy/History & Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame Ph.D., Physics, University of Texas at Austin _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
