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Dr. John WORRAL Professor of Philosophy of Science, London School of Economics

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1968-1971British Academy Postgraduate Scholarship
1974-1983 Co-Editor, then Editor, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
1975-1978 Managing Editor of the posthumous works of Imre Lakatos.
1982-1983 Senior Research Fellowship, Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science
1984-1988 National Organising Committee, 1988 World Congress of Philosophy
1990-1993 Director, LSE Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science
1993- Co-Director, LSE Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science
1996-1998 Subject Editor for Philosophy of Science, Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy
1998 Program Committee, Philosophy of Science Biennial Meeting, Kansas City
1996-1999 Member, Management Committee, Lakatos Award
2000-2001 Evans Williams Visiting Fellowship, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
1999 Chairman, Management Committee, Lakatos Award
1968-1971 British Academy Postgraduate Scholarship
1982-1983 Senior Research Fellowship, Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science
2000-2001 Evans Williams Visiting Fellowship, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Publikationen

(Editor with Elie Zahar) I. Lakatos: Proofs and Refutations. Cambridge University Press, 1976.
(Managing Editor) I. Lakatos: The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Philosophical Papers Volume I and Mathematics, Science and Epistemology: Philosophical Papers Volume II, Cambridge University Press, 1978.
(Editor) The Ontology of Science. The International Research Library of Philosophy, Volume 10. Dartmouth Publishing Co. 1994 (includes 35 page editor's introduction plus a reprint of [1989b])
Reason and Revolution: A Study of Theory-Change in Science. Oxford University Press, 2001 (forthcoming)