Lakatos Award
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The Lakatos Award is given annually for a contribution to the philosophy of science which is widely interpreted as outstanding. The contribution must be in the form of a book published in English during the previous six years.
The Award is in memory of Imre Lakatos and has been endowed by the Latsis Foundation. It is administered by the following committee:
- The Director of the London School of Economics (Chairman)
- Professor John Worrall (Convenor)
- Professor Hans Albert
- Professor Nancy Cartwright
- Professor Adolf Grünbaum
- Professor Philip Kitcher
- Professor Alan Musgrave
- Professor Michael Redhead
The Committee makes the Award on the advice of an independent and anonymous panel of selectors. The value of the Award is £10,000.
To take up an Award a successful candidate must visit the LSE and deliver a public lecture.
[edit] Winners
The Award has so far been won by:
- 1986 - Bas Van Fraassen and Hartry Field
- 1987 - Michael Friedman and Philip Kitcher
- 1988 - Michael Redhead
- 1989 - John Earman
- 1991 - Elliott Sober
- 1993 - Peter Achinstein and Alexander Rosenberg for Economics--Mathematical Politics or Science of diminsing Returns?
- 1994 - Michael Dummett
- 1995 - Lawrence Sklar
- 1996 - Abner Shimony
- for his collected essays "The Search for a Naturalistic World View" (1993)
- 1998 - Jeffrey Bub and Deborah Mayo
- 1999 - Brian Skyrms
- for his book "Evolution of the Social Contract" (1996) on modelling 'fair', non self-interested human actions using (cultural) evolutionary dynamics ([1])
- 2001 - Judea Pearl
- for his book "Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference" (2000) on causal models and causal reasoning ([2])
- 2002 - Penelope Maddy
- for her book "Naturalism in Mathematics" (1997) on the issue of how the axioms of set theory are justified ([3])
- 2003 - Patrick Suppes
- for his book "Representation and Invariance of Scientific Structures" (2002) on axiomatising a wide range of scientific theories in terms of set theory ([4])
- 2004 - Kim Sterelny
- for his book "Thought in a Hostile World: The Evolution of Human Cognition" (2003) on the idea that thought is a response to threat ([5])
- 2005 - James Woodward
- for his book "Making Things Happen" (2003) on causality and explanation
