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Born in Hungary
Imre Lakatos was born a Hungarian citizen in 1922, first known as Imre Lipsitz. He later changed his name to hide the fact he was Jewish. He studied mathematics, physics, and philosophy at the University of Debrecen, graduating in 1944. Worrall, John "Lakatos, Imre (1922–1974) ." Encyclopedia of Philosophy. . Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2021). https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/lakatos-imre-1922-1974 -
Uprising in Hungary
Much of the course of his college years were during WWII leading him to flee Hungary in 1956 to Britain after a Hungarian uprising which was halted by Soviet tanks. Britain is where he would eventually rise to prominence although he never became a citizen of the country. https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lakatos/
LAKATOS SPEACH "Science and Pseudoscience"
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Significant Works
Imre Lakatos is notable for his anti-formalist philosophy of mathematics and his “Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes”, which was a revision of Poppers Demarcation Criterion between science and Non-Science, giving rise to the novel theory of scientific rationality. Musgrave, Alan and Charles Pigden, "Imre Lakatos", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2021 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), forthcoming URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2021/entries/lakatos/. -
Later life
Imre regularly attended Karl Popper's seminar at the London School of Economics. Lakatos accepted a lectureship in logic at LSE in 1960 and was promoted to a personal chair in 1970. He was only fifty-one years old and still teaching at LSE when he died of a heart attack in 1974. Worrall, John "Lakatos, Imre (1922–1974) ." Encyclopedia of Philosophy. . Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2021). https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/lakatos-imre-1922-1974