Tian Yu Cao obtained his PhD in history and philosophy of science from University of Cambridge in 1987, and now is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. His research interests include conceptual history of modern physics, structural realism, and philosophical issues in quantum gravity, in addition to general issues in history and philosophy of science. His publications include Conceptual Developments of 20th Century Field Theories (1997) and From Current Algebra to QCD (forthcoming), and more than 30 articles on issues in the areas of his research interests; he also edited Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Field Theory (1999) and The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy-Volume 10: Philosophy of Science (2001).
Project: The Kuhn-Popper Debate Revisited|
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András Máté studied mathematics and philosophy at the Eötvös University Budapest (Hungary). He is currently associated professor of logic at the Philosophical Institute of the Eötvös University. He made his PhD (CSc) at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences about Plato and Frege. His research interests include history of logic and semantics (semantical ideas in Plato's dialogues, Stoic logic, medieval semantics, Leibniz, Bolzano Frege) and philosophy of mathematics (second order logic as framework, philosophical ideas of 20th century Hungarian mathematicians).
Project: Lakatos' background in the mathematical life of Hungary|
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Miklos Redei studied physics and philosophy at Lorand Eotvos University in Budapest, Hungary, receiving his PhD in philosophy from Eotvos University in 1982. Currently he is associate professor in the Department of Logic at Eotvos University. His research interests concern foundational and philosophical problems of modern physics, especially of quantum theory, and related more general issues in philosophy of science such as the interpretation of probability and theories of probabilistic causation. He is the author of the book Quantum Logic in Algebraic Approach (Kluwer, 1998), co-editor (with M. Stoeltzner) of the volume John von Neumann and the Foundations of Quantum Physics, (Kluwer, 2001) and editor of John von Neumann: Selected Letters (American Mathematical Society, 2005). He was co-organizer of the 3 year European Science Foundation Network "Fundational and Philosophical Problems of Modern Physics".
Project: Early Reception of Lakatos' Philosophy of Mathematics
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Michael Shaffer obtained his PhD from the University of Miami in 2000 as a student of Risto Hilpinen. He is currently an assistant professor of philosophy at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. His interests are focused on the theory of rationality as it is manifested in the sciences and mathematics. He has published a number of articles on topics in logic, epistemology and the philosophy of science. He is currently co-editing a volume on a priori knowledge in the sciences (New Views on the A Priori in Physical Theory (forthcoming).
Project: A Reexamination of Lakatos' Dynamic (Quasi-)Empiricism in the Philosophy of Mathematics|
Contact details: Room LAK G.01 (Lakatos Building)
Zsuzsanna Vajda is an assistant professor of psychology at Szeged University, Hungary. She graduated from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and wrote her PhD thesis about the history of the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis. Her special area of interest includes the study of the overlap between history and psychology, the history of scientific ideas and their relationship with the actual social-political context and the migration of scientific ideas and scientists between different countries. She has published several textbooks and papers about Hungarian emigrant psychoanalists, the history of childhood, the historical changes of theories and notions of developmental psychology and about the political background of the IQ debate.
Project: The Two Lives and Personalities of Imre Lakatos - Are They Related to Each Other?
Contact details: Room LAK G.01(Lakatos Building)