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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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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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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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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.
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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)