The London School of Economics and Political Science announces that the 1986 Lakatos Award, of £10,000 for an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science, has been jointly won by:

van-Fraassen

 

Bas van Fraassen (Princeton University) for his book The Scientific Image  (Clarendon Press, 1980)

 
 
 

Field
 

Hartry Field (New York University) for his book Science Without Numbers (Princeton University Press, 1980)