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Early life
Imre Lakatos was an only child born to two Jewish parents. Due to his parents splitting up, he was largely raised by his grandmother and his mother who worked as a beautician. He was born into a kingdom without a king that was ran as an authoritarian regime, a sort of fascism-lite. -
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School Life
Imre Lakatos had a brilliant career in school, where he won mathematics competitions and a multitude of prizes. He attended Debrecen University in the year 1940, and he would go on to graduate in Physics, Mathematics, and Philosophy in the year 1944. -
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Lakatos the Communist
During his time at Debrecen University he had become a committed communist. He would attend underground communist meetings, and by 1943 he started to have his own illegal meetings. -
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Changes in Logic
In 1964 Lakatos turned from the history and philosophy of mathematics to the history and philosophy of the empirical sciences. He organized a famous International Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science, held in London in 1965. -
Contributions to the Philosophy of Science
The best-known of Lakatos’s “Conference Proceedings” is Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge, which became an international best-seller. It contains Lakatos’s important paper “Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes” (FMSRP)