The Lakatos Award is given annually for an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science, widely interpreted. The contribution must be in the form of a monograph, co-authored or single-authored, and published in English during the previous six years. The award is in memory of the influential Hungarian philosopher of science and mathematics Imre Lakatos, whose tenure as Professor of Logic at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) was cut short by his early and unexpected death. While administered by an international management committee organised from the LSE, it is independent of the LSE Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method, with many of the committee's members being academics from other institutions. The value of the award, which has been endowed by the Latsis Foundation, is £10,000, and to take it up a successful candidate must visit the LSE and deliver a public lecture. Selection The award is administered by the following committee: Professor Roman Frigg (Convenor, LSE) Professor Richard Bradley (LSE) Professor Hasok Chang (University of Cambridge) Professor Nancy Cartwright (University of Durham) Professor Kostas Gavroglu (University of Athens) Professor Helen Longino (Stanford University) Professor Samir Okasha (University of Bristol) Professor Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter) The Committee makes the Award on the advice of an independent and anonymous panel of selectors. Winners The Award has so far been won by: 1986 – Bas Van Fraassen for The Scientific Image (1980) and Hartry Field for Science Without Numbers (1980) 1987 – Michael Friedman for Foundations of Space-Time Theories and Philip Kitcher for Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature 1988 – Michael Redhead for Incompleteness, Nonlocality and Realism 1989 – John Earman for A Primer on Determinism 1991 – Elliott Sober for Reconstructing the Past: Parsimony, Evolution, and Interference (1988) 1993 – Peter Achinstein for Particles and Waves: Historical Essays in the Philosophy of Science (1991) and Alexander Rosenberg for Economics—Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing Returns? (1992) 1994 – Michael Dummett for Frege: Philosophy of Mathematics (1991) 1995 – Lawrence Sklar for Physics and Chance: Philosophical Issues in the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics (1993) 1996 – Abner Shimony for The Search for a Naturalistic World View (1993) 1998 – Jeffrey Bub for Interpreting the Quantum World and Deborah Mayo for Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge 1999 – Brian Skyrms for Evolution of the Social Contract (1996) on modelling 'fair', non self-interested