Lakatos Award

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 (1988)

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

for Frege: Philosophy of Mathematics (1991)

1995 - Lawrence Sklar

for Physics and Chance: Philosophical Issues in the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics (1993)

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)

2008 - Richard Healey

for Gauging What’s Real: the conceptual foundations of contemporary gauge theories (2007)

2009 -Samir Okasha

for Evolution and the Levels of Selection (2006).

2010 - Peter Godfrey-Smith

for Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection

2012 - Wolfgang Spohn

for The Laws of Belief: Ranking Theory and its Philosophical Implications (2012)

2013 - Laura Ruetsche

for Interpreting Quantum Theories (2011)

and David Wallace

for The Emergent Multiverse: Quantum Theory According to the Everett Interpretation (2012)

2014 - Gordon Belot

for Geometric Possibility (2011)

and David Malament

for Topics in the Foundations of General Relativity and Newtonian Gravitation Theory (2012)