Versions of externalism. Hungarian contributions to the post-positivist philosophy of science

Laki, János (2013) Versions of externalism. Hungarian contributions to the post-positivist philosophy of science. In: Logic in Central and Eastern Europe: History, Science, and Discourse. University Press of America, New York, pp. 631-637. ISBN 978-0761858911

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Abstract

In the transformation process that has changed our understanding of science in the middle of the last century, a number of Hungarian émigrés (Karl Mannheim, Michael Polányi, Joseph Ben-David and Imre Lakatos) have played a considerable role. Though these philosophers and sociologists all worked in England (mainly at the LSE – where Mannheim and Lakatos taught and Ben-David studied) not all of them knew each other personally. Still, their outlook on science clearly displays some family resemblance. In what follows, I leave aside the reasons for this similarity and focus on one point exclusively: their views on the relation of science to its social context.

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