[Galileo] FW: Lakatos Research Fellowships at LSE

[George Gale]

Lakatos Research Fellowships at LSE

An extensive archive of Imre Lakatos's papers and letters - mostly in
English, but some in Hungarian - is held in the British Library for
Political and Economic Science at the London School of Economics.  Thanks to
the generosity of an anonymous donor, Research Fellowships to a total amount
of US$ 25,000 will be available in the calendar year 2007 for scholars
wishing to pursue some research project on Lakatos and/or his contemporaries
that requires consultation of the archive. The Fellowships will be held at
the LSE Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
(http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/philosophyLogicAndScientificMethod/) which
will also provide facilities for the Fellows. The awards will aim to cover
the recipients' travel and a stipend of up to £300/week for junior scholars
(PhD students) and up to £550/week for senior scholars for other expenses
during their stay in London. The length of the stay should be between a week
and two months. Fellows will be r!
 equired to submit a brief report on the outcome of their research.

Applications should be sent by e-mail to Professor John Worrall at
j.worrall at lse.ac.uk  (subject: Lakatos Research Fellowship). The application
letter should outline the research proposal, and include a brief cv and a
clear statement of proposed time and length of visit to London.  The
deadline for applications is August 10 2007 and applicants will be informed
of the outcome as soon as possible.

Notes for prospective candidates: The LSE Lakatos Archive contains Lakatos's
notes and working papers dating from 1945 and other personal documents,
including his correspondence from 1956 with some 1000+ correspondents
including Agassi, Carnap, Feyerabend, Kalmar, Koestler, Kuhn, Polanyi,
Polya, Popper, Quine, Szabo, Tarski, and many other figures of the
philosophical, intellectual and academic establishments of the time. It also
includes correspondence in his capacity as Editor of the British Journal for
the Philosophy of Science from 1971. The Archive has recently acquired
copies of important documents from Lakatos's Hungarian state security police
files that remained 'live' until after his death and also summary reports on
their contents in the recently opened Hungarian state archives. The contents
of the Lakatos Archive listed in its LSE British Library Catalogue can be
inspected online and its Catalogue found from the Library's
Archives/Archives Catalogue Menu on the LS!
 E website at www.lse.ac.uk, except for the names and details of its 1000+
correspondents' files in Section Lakatos/13 that are only available by
request from the Archive at document at lse.ac.uk  . The LSE British Library
also holds most of Lakatos's last personal library - The Lakatos Collection
- whose Catalogue can be inspected online at
http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/whinthli/Lakatos.htm, and which includes many
Lakatos-annotated books held separately in the Lakatos Archive. Further
details and useful references about Lakatos for researchers can be found at
the LSE 'Lakatos' website www.lse.ac.uk/lakatos , and also at
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/philosophyLogicAndScientificMethod/lakatos/
LakatosAwardWinner.htm .
Details of previous Lakatos Archive Research Fellows and their research
projects can be seen at
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/CPNSS/people/LakatosResearchFellows.htm .



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