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
- for The Scientific Image (1980)
- and Hartry Field
- for Science Without Numbers (1980)
- 1987 - Michael Friedman
- for Foundations of Space-Time Theories
- and Philip Kitcher
- for Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature
- 1988 - Michael Redhead
- for Incompleteness, Nonlocality and Realism
- 1989 - John Earman
- for A Primer on Determinism
- 1991 - Elliott Sober
- for Reconstructing the Past: Parsimony, Evolution, and Interference
- 1993 - Peter Achinstein
- for Particles and Waves: Historical Essays in the Philosophy of Science (1991)
- and Alexander Rosenberg
- for Economics--Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing Returns? (1992)
- 1994 - Michael Dummett
- 1995 - Lawrence Sklar
- for Physics and Chance: Philosophical Issues in the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics
- 1996 - Abner Shimony
- for The Search for a Naturalistic World View (1993)
- 1998 - Jeffrey Bub
- for Interpreting the Quantum World
- and Deborah Mayo
- for Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge
- 1999 - Brian Skyrms
- for Evolution of the Social Contract (1996) on modelling 'fair', non self-interested human actions using (cultural) evolutionary dynamics ([1])
- 2001 - Judea Pearl
- for Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference (2000) on causal models and causal reasoning ([2])
- 2002 - Penelope Maddy
- for Naturalism in Mathematics (1997) on the issue of how the axioms of set theory are justified ([3])
- 2003 - Patrick Suppes
- for 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 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 Making Things Happen (2003) on causality and explanation
- 2006 - Harvey Brown
- for Physical Relativity: Space-time Structure from a Dynamical Perspective (2005)
- and Hasok Chang
- for Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress (2004)
