Lakatos Award: call for nominations
The
London School of Economics and Political Science invites nominations for the
2018 Lakatos Award.
The
Lakatos Award is given annually for an outstanding contribution to the
philosophy of science, widely interpreted, in the form of a book published in
English. For the 2018 award, books
with an imprint from 2012 to 2017 (inclusive) are eligible.
The Award, in memory of the former LSE professor Imre Lakatos, was made possible
by a generous endowment from the Latsis Foundation. It is administered by an international Management Committee
organised from the LSE, but entirely independent of LSE’s Department of
Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method.
The Committee, currently chaired by Hasok
Chang (University of Cambridge), decides the outcome of the competition on the
advice of an international, independent and anonymous panel of Selectors who
produce detailed reports on the shortlisted books.
For
the 2018 award, nominations must be received by Monday 2 October 2017.
Nominations may be made by any persons of recognised standing within the philosophy of science or an allied
profession. Self-nominations are
not allowed. Before a nomination
is submitted, permission should be sought from the author(s) of the nominated
book. The Management Committee itself
is not empowered to nominate books.
The Management Committee would like to apologise for the
delay in the processing of recent awards.
Winners of the 2015 and the 2016 awards will be announced soon. The 2017 competition will not take
place.
For further details, see: