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Imre Lakatos

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  • Birth

    Birth
    Imre Lakatos was born in Debrecen, Hungary, to parents Jacob Lipchitz and Margit Hertsfeld.

  • Invasion

    Invasion
    Nazis invaded Hungary. This led to the Jewish population being forced into ghettos. Many of these people were sent to Auschwitz, including Lakatos's mother and grandmother. While they did not survive this Lakatos escaped to Romania and became the leader of a radical study group with other students.
    Baggott, J. (2021). Imre Lakatos and the philosophy of bad science | Aeon Essays. Aeon. https://aeon.co/essays/imre-lakatos-and-the-philosophy-of-bad-science

  • Scientific Research Programs

    Scientific Research Programs
    Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn both contributed to Lakatos' work, which he used to develop a new theory of rationality in science. Lakatos used his "research programme" (a collection of papers that offered critique of Popper's falsifiability theory) to replace Kuhn's idea of scientific ideas with his own and with Popper's as well, interchangeably.

  • Fleeing and Death

    Fleeing and Death
    In 1956 he fled his home country due to the Soviet Union tanks suppressing the Hungarian uprising, making his way to England. After arriving he would live out the rest of his life here continuing to contribute to philosophy math and science. He died on February 2, 1974.

  • Citations

    Musgrave, A., & Pigden, C. (2021, April 26). Imre Lakatos (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lakatos/#ProoRefu19631976
    Baggott, J. (2021). Imre Lakatos and the philosophy of bad science | Aeon Essays. Aeon. https://aeon.co/essays/imre-lakatos-and-the-philosophy-of-bad-science