Imre Lakatos

Imre Lakatos
Imre Lakatos
	Lakatos, c. 1960s
Born	9 November 1922; Debrecen, Hungary
Died	2 February 1974 (aged 51); London, England
Education	University of Debrecen (PhD, 1948); Moscow State University; University of Cambridge (PhD, 1961)
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy; Historical turn; Fallibilism; Mathematical quasi-empiricism; Historiographical internalism
Institutions	London School of Economics
Thesis	Essays in the Logic of Mathematical Discovery (1961)
Doctoral advisor	R. B. Braithwaite
Other academic advisors	Sofya Yanovskaya
Doctoral students	Donald A. Gillies; Spiro Latsis; John Worrall
Main interests	Philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, history of science, epistemology, politics
Notable ideas	Method of proofs and refutations, methodology of scientific research programmes, methodology of historiographical research programmes, positive vs. negative heuristics, progressive vs. degenerative research programmes, rational reconstruction, mathematical quasi-empiricism, criticism of logical positivism and formalism, sophisticated falsificationism

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Imre Lakatos (UK: /ˈlækətɒs/,^[6] US: /-toʊs/; Hungarian: Lakatos Imre [ˈlɒkɒtoʃ ˈimrɛ]; 9 November 1922 – 2 February 1974) was a Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science, known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its "methodology of proofs and refutations" in its pre-axiomatic stages of development, and also for introducing the concept of the "research programme" in his methodology of scientific research programmes.

^ ^a ^b E. Reck (ed.), The Historical Turn in Analytic Philosophy, Springer, 2016: ch. 4.2.
^ Kostas Gavroglu, Yorgos Goudaroulis, P. Nicolacopoulos (eds.), Imre Lakatos and Theories of Scientific Change, Springer, 2012, p. 211.
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^ K. Gavroglu, Y. Goudaroulis, P. Nicolacopoulos (eds.), Imre Lakatos and Theories of Scientific Change, Springer, 2012, p. 61.
^ András Máté (2006). "Árpád Szabó and Imre Lakatos, Or the relation between history and philosophy of mathematics" (PDF). Perspectives on Science. 14 (3): 282–301. doi:10.1162/posc.2006.14.3.282. S2CID 53941387.
^ Philosophy of Science: Popper and Lakatos, lecture on the philosophy of science of Karl Popper and Imre Lakatos, delivered to master's students at the University of Sussex in November 2014.

Imre Lakatos
Lakatos, c. 1960s
Born	(1922-11-09)9 November 1922 Debrecen, Hungary
Died	2 February 1974(1974-02-02) (aged 51) London, England
Education	University of Debrecen (PhD, 1948) Moscow State University University of Cambridge (PhD, 1961)

Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy^[1] Historical turn^[1] Fallibilism Mathematical quasi-empiricism Historiographical internalism^[2]
Institutions	London School of Economics
Thesis	Essays in the Logic of Mathematical Discovery (1961)
Doctoral advisor	R. B. Braithwaite
Other academic advisors	Sofya Yanovskaya
Doctoral students	Donald A. Gillies Spiro Latsis John Worrall
Main interests	Philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, history of science, epistemology, politics
Notable ideas	Method of proofs and refutations, methodology of scientific research programmes, methodology of historiographical research programmes,^[3] positive vs. negative heuristics, progressive vs. degenerative research programmes, rational reconstruction, mathematical quasi-empiricism, criticism of logical positivism and formalism, sophisticated falsificationism^[4]