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Imre Lakatos
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Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science (1922-1974)
Imre Lakatos was a Hungarian philosopher who studied how mathematics and science actually develop and change over time, rather than assuming they're built on fixed, unchanging foundations. His work matters because it challenged traditional views of scientific progress and offered a more realistic picture of how knowledge grows through a process of proposing ideas, testing them, and refining them based on what we learn.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1921
- Died
- 1974
- Works
- 26
Top works
- Proofs and refutations
- Kritik und Erkenntnisfortschritt
- Beweise und Widerlegungen
- Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes
- Kanitlar ve Curutmeler
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 9
- Total plays
- 35
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2017 · cited 5,582x
- Uncovering the overlapping community structure of complex networks in nature and society
· 2005 · cited 4,212x
- Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants
· 2021 · cited 3,160x
- Extracellular vesicles: biology and emerging therapeutic opportunities
· 2013 · cited 3,132x
- Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes
· 1970 · cited 2,675x
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Quotes
- “Where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes.”
- “For the sophisticated falsificationist a scientific theory T is falsified if and only if another theory T' has been proposed with the following characteristics :”
- “For centuries knowledge meant proven knowledge... Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge. But few realize that with this the whole classical structure of intellectual values falls in ruins and has to be replaced.”
- “Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.”
- “It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Imre
- Family name
- Lakatos
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Debrecen
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- physicist
- Educated at
- University of Cambridge
- Political party
- Hungarian Communist Party
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Hungarian
- Doctoral advisor
- R. B. Braithwaite
- Field of work
- philosophy
- Image
- Professor Imre Lakatos, c1960s.jpg
- Residence
- England
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- Commons category
- Imre Lakatos
- date of birth
- 1922-11-09
- date of death
- 1974-02-02
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Lakatos Imre
- influenced by
- Paul Feyerabend
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
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- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- birth name
- Imre Lipschitz
- ethnic group
- Jewish people
- pseudonym
- Imre Molnár
- member of
- Petofi circle
- place of detention
- Recsk Concentration Camp
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Imre Lakatos ( UK: /ˈlækətɒs/, 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.
Life
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