Download or read book Mathematics, Science and Epistemology: Volume 2, Philosophical Papers written by Imre Lakatos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1978-05-18 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imre Lakatos' philosophical and scientific papers are published here in two volumes. Volume I brings together his very influential but scattered papers on the philosophy of the physical sciences, and includes one important unpublished essay on the effect of Newton's scientific achievement. Volume 2 presents his work on the philosophy of mathematics (much of it unpublished), together with some critical essays on contemporary philosophers of science and some famous polemical writings on political and educational issues.