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Life and Death //www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/lakatos/
"Imre Lakatos (1922-74), the internationally renowned philosopher of mathematics and science, lectured at the LSE in its Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method from 1960 until his untimely death in 1974 at the age of 51. He became its Professor of Logic in 1969. He is the author of the classic work in the philosophy of mathematics Proofs and Refutations and proposed a renowned account of scientific method called The Methodology of Scientific Research Program". Put web in title. -
Heuristic http://people.loyno.edu/~folse/Lakatos.html
"The negative heuristic specifies certain claims of the research programme as not revisable: "tinkering" with these clams is not permitted as long as one adheres to the programme. They thus cardon off a "hard core" which cannot change from one theory to the next. Revising these beliefs is "off limits." [This is Lakatos's analogue to Kuhn's contention that the normal scientist accepts a paradigm "dogmatically."] -
Refining Science
"In designing new theories to replace old, the scientist in a research programme adheres to a constellation of beliefs which Lakatos calls a "heuristic". This heuristic includes both positive and negative aspects". it is my belief that Lakatos was trying to take science to another level. It is shown in his time line that he passed before he was able to complete his work.In my words he understood science needed help. Science has bad spells. http://people.loyno.edu/~folse/Lakatos.html -
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Heuristics http://people.loyno.edu/~folse/Lakatos.html
"The positive heuristic represents a body of beliefs which are allied to the hard core as well as suggestions regarding how these beliefs can be revised. These beliefs can be tinkered with; indeed the life of the research programme essentially consists of learning how to reshape these beliefs in the light of potentially refuting observational evidence so as to protect the "hard core" from being refuted. Thus they form a "protective belt" surrounding the hard core". -
Lecture given after death
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My own words
Lakatos had an infinity to understand science. He saw the downsides and also advised science was just like life, it had it's up's and downs. Lakatos was a very bright mind with every intent on understanding science and providing that information to others. Unfortunately he passed before pulling his ideas from the blender and writing them down or even getting the chance to talk in a open forum.