Philosophy of Science Lakatos and MacIntyre on Incommensurability and the Rationality of Theory-change Robert Miner University of Notre Dame ABSTRACT: Imre Lakatos' methodology of scientific research programs and Alasdair MacIntyre's tradition-constituted enquiry are two sustained attempts to overcome the assumptions of logical empiricism, while saving the appearance that theory-change is ...

Volume 10 Number 1 1997 Alasdair MacIntyre: Critic of Modernity, P. McMylor, Routledge, 1994, 224 pages, #40 hardback, #12.99 paperback As the author of this book points out, the work of Alasdair MacIntyre is not easy to classify. McMylor describes him as a social critic, but this is itself rather misleading. His work is very different in character from that of many others to whom this label has ...