Reconstructing Lakatos: A reassessment of Lakatos' epistemological project in the light of the Lakatos archive

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 487-509

  Motterlini, Matteo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

History; Lakatos; Method; Rationality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036756014     PISSN: 00393681     EISSN: 18792510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-3681(02)00024-9     Document Type: Article

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