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Imre Lakantos 1922-1974

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  • Born

    Born
    Imre Lipschitz born to a Jewish family in Debrecen, Hungary Source: Imre Lakatos - biography. Maths History. (n.d.). Retrieved November 8, 2021, from https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lakatos/.

  • Education

    Education
    Graduated from the University of Debrecen in 1944 with a degree in mathematics, physics, and philosophy. In 1956 he began to study at the University of Cambridge for a doctorate on Philosophy.
    Source: Imre Lakatos - biography. Maths History. (n.d.). Retrieved November 8, 2021, from https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lakatos/.

  • Proofs and Refutations (1963–4)

    Proofs and Refutations (1963–4)
    1963-4 Lakatos had a four part paper published by "The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science" which later became the first of four chapters in his post-mortem published "Proofs and Refutations." In the reading Lakatos tries to establish that no theorem of informal mathematics is final or perfect. "Proofs and Refutations"
    Source: Musgrave, A., & Pigden, C. (2021, April 26). Imre Lakatos. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved November 8, 2021

  • Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmer

    The refuting of the program will adjust the the protective belt. Lakatos sort of bridged a gap between Popper's falsificationism and Kuhn's views. The structure of the research program was the "hard core" or not revisable claims of a program and the "protective belt" that can be revised in order to protect the "hard core" being refuted.
    Source:Musgrave, A., & Pigden, C. (2021, April 26). Imre Lakatos. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved November 8, 2021

  • History of Science and Its Rational Reconstructions

    Lakatos proposed a historiographical method for evaluating different theories of scientific method. By first comparing their successes in explaining the actual history of science and scientific revolutions. And then providing a historiographical framework for rationally reconstructing the history of science as anything more than merely inconsequential rambling.
    Source:Lakatos. Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method. (2021, September 24). Retrieved November 8, 2021.

  • Died

    Died at 51 years old of a heart attack in London, England
    Source: Imre Lakatos - biography. Maths History. (n.d.). Retrieved November 8, 2021, from https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lakatos/.

  • Proofs and Refutations

    The book "Proof and Refutations" published postmortem is based on the first three chapters of his four chapter doctoral thesis and his own revised first chapter from his previous publication in "The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science."
    Source: Musgrave, A., & Pigden, C. (2021, April 26). Imre Lakatos. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved November 8, 2021, from https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lakatos/.