Brendan Larvor's Publications
e-mail: b.p.larvor @ herts.ac.uk
Brendan Larvor is principal lecturer and subject leader for philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire.
Books
ArticlesLakatos: An Introduction, Routledge. 1998.
Contributions to Books“Albert Lautman: Dialectics in Mathematics” forthcoming in Philosophiques
“Moral Particularism and Scientific Practice” Metaphilosophy volume 39, no. 5, October 2008
"What can the philosophy of mathematics learn from the history of mathematics?" Erkenntnis 68/3 (May 2008): 393-407. Special edition ‘Towards a New Epistemology of Mathematics’ (Buldt, Löwe and Müller eds).
"Proof in C17 Algebra" in Philosophia Scientiae (special issue: Fonder Autrement les Mathématiques) vol. 9 (2005). Reprinted in Perspectives on Mathematical Practices (Springer, 2007, van Kerkhove & van Bendegem eds, vol. 5 of Logic, Epistemology and the Unity of Science).
"The formalising tendency in philosophy and experimental psychology" in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 2 (4): 337-352, 2003.
"Why did Kuhn's Structure cause a fuss?" in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, vol. 34/2 pp. 369 - 390 (2003).
"What is Dialectical Philosophy of Mathematics?" in Philosophia Mathematica vol. 9 no. 1 (June 2001).
"Old Maps, Crystal Spheres and the Cartesian Circle" in Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal Vol. 22, No. 2. 2001
"Lakatos' Mathematical Hegelianism" in The Owl of Minerva Vol. 31 no. 1, Fall 1999.
"Lakatos as Historian of Mathematics" in Philosophia Mathematica, vol. 5, no. 1. 1997.
"History, Methodology and Early Algebra" in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science. vol. 8, no. 2. 1994.
"The Owl and the Pussycat" in The Philosophical Quarterly. vol. 44, no. 175. 1994.
"Re-reading Soviet Philosophy: Bakhurst on Ilyenkov" in Studies in Soviet Thought. no. 44. 1992.
Popular Articles"Authoritarian vs Authoritative Teaching: Polya and Lakatos"; in Hanna, G., Jahnke, H. N., & Pulte, H. (Eds.) Explanation and proof in mathematics: Philosophical and educational perspectives. New York: Springer, 2010.
"Between Logic and History" in Induction, Algorithmic Learning Theory, and Philosophy (Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science , Vol. 9) Friend, Michèle; Goethe, Norma B.; Harizanov, Valentina S. (Eds.) 2007, ISBN: 978-1-4020-6126-4
"Mill on Liberty of Thought and Discussion" in John Stuart Mill on... (British Humanist Association, 2006).
"Philosophy of Mathematics" in AC Grayling, Andrew Pyle, and Naomi Goulder (eds) Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy. June 2006; Vol. 3, pp. 2106-2109.
(With Peter Cave) Editorial Introduction to Thinking About Death. British Humanist Association: 2004 (Brendan Larvor & Peter Cave eds).
Entries on 'Imre Lakatos' and 'Research Programs' in Pfeifer & Sarkar (eds) The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia. Routledge: 2003.
"The role of history in the philosophy of science" in Companion to the Philosophy of Science (ed. W.H. Newton-Smith). Blackwell: 1999.
Pedagogy"Triangular Logic" in The Philosophers' Magazine 44 (1st quarter 2009) 83-88.
Interview in The Reasoner about the philosophy of mathematics.
Reasoner 1:4
"Relativism Explained" (British Humanist Association, 2005)
"Tu Quoque, Archbishop!" in Think 7 (summer 2004) 101-107 (a periodical of the Royal Institute of Philosophy); reply by Brenda Watson in issue 9; reply to her reply in issue 10 31-33.
"What do Tony and George have in common?" in Voice of the Turtle (August 2003).
"Why the 2001 Election is so Dull" in Voice of the Turtle (June 2001).
"Boot: a Quality Assured Allegory" in Voice of the Turtle Décade I, Octidi de Thermidor de l'Année CCVIII de la Révolution (Summer 2000).
"Two Cultures" Cogito 12 (1998)
"Blasphemy and the Rushdie Affair" in Philosophy Now 14 (Winter 1995/6) 13-14.
"National Identity" The Whig Standard. 8 August, 1990.
Reviews(With John Lippitt) "Wot U @ Uni 4? Expectations and actuality of studying philosophy at university" Discourse Volume 9, No. 1 (Winter 2009) 93-110
"Feeling the Force of Argument" in Andrea Kenkmann (ed.) Teaching Philosophy. London & New York: Continuum, 2009.
"Students are Human Beings (Discuss)" Discourse Vol. 6 No. 1 (Autumn 2006) 225-236.
"The Case for Teaching Syllogistic Logic to Philosophy Students" Discourse Vol. 4 No. 1 (Autumn 2004) 130-136. Reprinted in Gil, Lancho & Manzano (eds) Proceedings of the Second International Congress on Tools for Teaching Logic. (2006: ISBN84-690-0348-8) 81-86.
Top of pageIneffability and Philosophy by André Kukla (Oxford: Routledge, 2005) in Mind (2009).
Out of Error: Further Essays on Critical Rationalism by David Miller (Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 2005) in Metascience (2008).
Our Knowledge of the Past: A Philosophy of Historiography by Aviezer Tucker (Cambridge University Press, 2004) in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science vol. 21 Issue 2 (2007).
La Révolution Symbolique: La Constitution de l’Ecriture Symbolique Mathématique by Michel Serfati. Preface by Jacques Bouverasse. Paris: Éditions Petra, 2005. ISBN 2-84743-006-7. In Philosophia Mathematica (III) 15 (2007).
Appraising Lakatos: Mathematics, Methodology and the Man. (Ladisalv Kvasz and Michael Stöltzner eds) in Philosophia Mathematica 12 (3) 294-301 ( Oct 2004)After Popper, Kuhn and Feyerabend: Recent Issues in Theories of Scientific Method (Robert Nola and Howard Sankey eds) reviewed in Metascience 11 (1): 100-104 (2002).
The Growth of Mathematical Knowledge (Emily Grosholz and Herbert Breger eds) reviewed in Philosophia Mathematica 10 (1) 93-96 (Feb 2002).
The Social Construction of What? (Ian Hacking) reviewed in Mind vol. 109 (July 2000).
For and Against Method (Imre Lakatos and Paul Feyerabend, edited by Matteo Motterlini) reviewed in British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 51 (4) (2000) 919-922.
Mathematics as a Science of Patterns (Michael D. Resnik) reviewed in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science vol 12-2 (1998).
The Problematic Reality of Values (Bransen & Slors eds) reviewed in Philosophical Books vol. 39 no. 1 (January 1998) 61-62.
The Logical Status of Diagrams (Sun-Joo Shin) reviewed in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science vol 10-1 (1996).
The State We're In (Will Hutton) reviewed in Philosophy Now.
Proof and Knowledge in Mathematics and Proof, Logic and Formalization (both Detlefsen ed.) reviewed in International Journal of Philosophical Studies Vol. 2 No. 1 (March 1994), pp. 149-51.
In Search of a Better World (Karl Popper) reviewed in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science.
Changing Tools: case studies in the history of scientific methodology (Márta Fehér) reviewed in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science.