Imre Lakatos, born on Nov. 9, 1922, in Debrecen, Hungary, died Feb. 2, 1974, in London, United Kingdom
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Imre Lakatos is born
Lakatos was born in Debrecen, Hungary, during a difficult period in which the country was deciding whether to side with Hitler or his allies. During these years, Imre spent his time at the University of Debrecen, where he graduated with a degree in mathematics, physics, and philosophy. He changed his Jewish name to Imre Molnar to avoid persecution from the Nazis.
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Imre Lakatos - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics. https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lakatos/ -
Proofs and Refutations is published
This was published in four parts in the British Journal for Philosophy of Science. Lakatos published it as a book and intended to improve it. It was based on his doctoral thesis on the progression of mathematics. Structured as a dialogue between a teacher and students, the thesis was that the development of mathematics did not consist of a steady accumulation of truths.
References
Imre Lakatos - New World Encyclopedia. https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Imre_Lakatos -
Changes in the Problem of Inductive Logic
This work analyzed the debate between Popper and Carnap regarding the relationship between theory and evidence in science. Lakatos's goal was to develop twin concepts of a degenerating research program and a degenerating problem shift.
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Imre Lakatos - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lakatos/ -
Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge
This paper was one of Lakatos's best-known proceedings as it contained his essential paper "Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes." This included Lakatos's methodology of attempting to reconcile the falsification views against Thomas Kuhn. This was his primary contribution, the research programs.
References
Imre Lakatos - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lakatos/ -
The History of Science and Its Rational Reconstructions
In "The History of Science and Its Rational Reconstructions," Lakatos proposes that you can evaluate competing rational theories by asking how they reconstruct the history of science, whether mathematical or empirical.
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Imre Lakatos (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). https://plato.sydney.edu.au/entries/lakatos/ -
Irme Lakatos's death
Lakatos dies leaving his work in philosophy of science and mathematics incomplete.
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Why Did Copernicus’s Research Programme Supersede Ptolemy’s?
This case study was Lakatos's last publication and was published shortly after his death. It argued that the methodology of scientific research programs could explain how Copernicus's rational process dethroned the earlier theory of Ptolemy's geocentric theory.
References
Imre Lakatos (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). https://plato.sydney.edu.au/entries/lakatos/
