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Pseudoscience
Lakatos proposed a level of distinction when determining a pseudoscience. Lakatos stated that a theory may be classified as a pseudoscience if it fails to provide any novel predictions of an unexplained phenomenon or if many claims within the theory are easily falsified. Lakatos' demarcation of pseudosciences would later appear in his research programme methodology.
“Lakatos.” London School of Economics and Political Science, 13 Feb. 2017, www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/lakatos/. -
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Lakatos-Feyerabend Cooperation
After becoming great friends while lecturing at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) the two heavily influenced and argued each other's work. Both would then collaborate and create a debate dialogue later titled For and Against Method in which they heavily criticized each other's work and described their respective roles in the philosophy of science. Lakatos would die before the dialogue was completed or held. -
Research Programme Model
Lakatos' research programme model was made to resolve the conflict between Popper and Kuhn's philosophies. Lakatos sought to combine the search for empirical validity in Popper's philosophy and the search for empirical consistency in Kuhn's philosophy to create a method which would prevent the complete abandonment of a theory but instead encourage its refinement. Ref.:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lakatos/#FalsMethScieReseProg1970 -
Proofs and Refutations
Through his book of the same name, Lakatos explains his philosophy of science. Simply, a theory can be proposed but, unlike Popper's philosophy, is not entirely proven wrong when a counter-proof is presented. In this case, the original definitions(theory) is altered in order to rebut that counter-proof and still remain factual. Ref.:
Larvor, B. (1998). Lakatos an introduction . London ;: Routledge.
