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Lakatos - Summary part I
Imre Lakatos is Jewish-Hungarian Philosopher who is well known for his contributions to the philosophy of science and mathematics. To avoid the Nazi discrimination during the German Nazi invasion of WWII he changed his surname to ‘Molnar” and then later took up “Lakatos”. Unfortunately, this did not help his family, he lost his mother and grandmother in a concentration camp during the German Nazi invasion. -
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Lakatos - Summary Part II
After his release in 1953 he translated mathematical books into Hungarian. Approximately 3 years later he left Hungary to travel and eventually settling down in Great Britain, where he remained for the rest of his life. It was there, around 1960 where he was hired as the assistant lecturer in the Department of Philosophy of logic and scientific method for the London School of Economics (LSE). -
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Lakatos - Summary Part III
In his time there (LSE) he wrote broadly on the philosophy of science and philosophy of mathematics. He later assembled a doctoral thesis that was published in ‘The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science’ called ‘Proofs and Refutations’ in 1963-64. However, Lakatos wanted to advance on his work and refused to publish it as a book, but was eventually published after his death in 1976. -
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Lakatos - Summary Part V
Imre Lakatos taught at LSE for 14 years and was also the editor for prestigious ‘The British Journal for the Philiosophy of Science’ until his unforeseen death in 1974 at the young age of 51 References
"Who is Imre Lakatos? Everything You Need to Know." Childhood, Life Achievements & Timeline. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 May 2017. -
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Lakatos - Summary Part IV
A few of Lakatos major works include: trying to prove the Euler-Descartes theorem of V-E+F=2, he always supported his arguments with historical case studies. Contributions to Philosophy of science for his ‘research programme’ ventured to create a fusion of Kuhn’s model of scientific theory and Popper’s falsification. This consisted of a ‘hardcore’ importance of evaluating a research program as either ‘progressive’ or ‘degenerative’ instead of examining whether or not the hypothesis is true. -
Lakatos Arrest leads to Mathematical philoosphy
Lakatos received his PhD in 1948 from Debrecen University. Two years after, in 1950 he was arrested and imprisoned for three years on charges of revisionism. It was after his release when he began mathematical research. His most notable work was “his introduction of a scientific ‘research programme’ and his thesis on the fallibility of mathematics, emphasizing on its proofs and refutations, while working at the prestigious London School of Economics.” -
Kuhn & Lakatos
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