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Lakatos was born on November 9, 1922, in Debrecen, Hungary under the name of Imre Lipschitz. Born into a Jewish family, He later changed his last name to Molnar and then changed it again to Lakatos due to the Nazi invasion.
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In 1944 Lakatos received a degree in mathematics, physics, and philosophy from the University of Debrecen.
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Lakatos obtained his Ph.D. from Cambridge with his work "Essays in the Logic of Mathematical Discovery"
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in 1960 Lakatos Started teaching at the London School of Economics
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Imre Lakatos attempted to reconcile Karl Popper's falsificationism with Thomas Kuhn’s model of Paradigm shift. His major contribution to the philosophy of science was this idea of a scientific research program. He devised a research program consisting of ‘hard core’, emphasizing and evaluating a research program as ‘progressive’ or ‘degenerative’, instead of analyzing whether the hypothesis is true or false.
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Lakatos died of a heart attack in 1974, London, United Kingdom
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Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery expounds Lakatos's view of the progress of mathematics. The book is written as a series of Socratic dialogues involving a group of students who debate the proof of the Euler characteristic defined for the polyhedron.
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The London School of Economics introduced the Lakatos Award in his memory , which is given to candidates who are making exceptional contributions to the philosophy of science.
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Bektas, Oktay. “Lakatos' Philosophy of Science.” YouTube, YouTube, 24 Nov. 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NQ9KLWL4DU.
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Lakatos, Imre., et al. For and Against Method Including Lakatos’s Lectures on Scientific Method and the Lakatos-Feyerabend Correspondence . University of Chicago Press, 1999, doi:10.7208/9780226467030. Larvor, Brendan. Lakatos : an Introduction . Routledge, 1998, doi:10.4324/9780203004548. Donnelly, Sue. “Introduction to the Archives of Imre Lakatos, 1922-1974.” Perspectives on Science, vol. 14, no. 3, MIT Press, 2006, pp. 347–53, doi:10.1162/posc.2006.14.3.347.