Lakatos Award
The Lakatos Award has been a scientific award that has been awarded annually since 1986 for outstanding contributions to the theory of science . The award is given to contributions that have been published in English and in book form in the past six years.
The prize is awarded in memory of the science theorist Imre Lakatos of the London School of Economics (LSE) and is endowed with £ 10,000. The prize money is provided by the Latsis Foundation . A public lecture at the LSE is associated with the award.
The winner is determined by the director of the LSE and the following philosophers of science: John Worrall , Hans Albert , Nancy Cartwright , Adolf Grünbaum , Philip Kitcher , Alan Musgrave and Michael Redhead .
Award winners
- 1986: Bas van Fraassen for The Scientific Image (1980) and Hartry Field 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
- 1990: not awarded
- 1991: Elliott Sober for Reconstructing the Past: Parsimony, Evolution, and Interference
- 1992: not awarded
- 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
- 1995: Lawrence Sklar for Physics and Chance: Philosophical Issues in the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics
- 1996: Abner Shimony for The Search for a Naturalistic World View (1993)
- 1997: not awarded
- 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)
- 2000: not awarded
- 2001: Judea Pearl for Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference (2000)
- 2002: Penelope Maddy for Naturalism in Mathematics (1997)
- 2003: Patrick Suppes for Representation and Invariance of Scientific Structures (2002)
- 2004: Kim Sterelny for Thought in a Hostile World: The Evolution of Human Cognition (2003)
- 2005: James Woodward for Making Things Happen (2003)
- 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)
- 2007: not awarded
- 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 (2009)
- 2011: not awarded
- 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 (2012)
- 2014: Gordon Belot for Geometric Possibility (2011) and David Malament for Topics in the Foundations of General Relativity and Newtonian Gravitation Theory (2012).
- 2015: Thomas Pradeu for The Limits of the Self: Immunology and Biological Identity (2012)
- 2016: Brian Epstein for The Ant Trap: Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences (2015)
- 2017: not awarded
- 2018: Sabina Leonelli for Data-Centric Biology: A Philosophical Study (2016) and Craig Callender for What Makes Time Special? (2017)
- 2019: Henk W. de Regt for Understanding Scientific Understanding (2017)
- 2020: Nicholas Shea for Representation in Cognitive Science (2018)