Imre Lakatos |
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Lakatos, c. 1960s |
| Born | (1922-11-09)9 November 1922
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| Died | 2 February 1974(1974-02-02) (aged 51)
London, England |
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| Education | University of Debrecen (PhD, 1948)
Moscow State University
University of Cambridge (PhD, 1961) |
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| Thesis | Essays in the Logic of Mathematical Discovery (1961) |
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| Doctoral advisor | R. B. Braithwaite |
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| Other advisors | Sofya Yanovskaya |
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| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
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| Region | Western philosophy |
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| School | Analytic philosophy
Historical turn
Fallibilism
Mathematical quasi-empiricism
Historiographical internalism |
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| Institutions | London School of Economics |
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| Doctoral students | Donald A. Gillies
Spiro Latsis
John Worrall |
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| Main interests | Philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, history of science, epistemology, politics |
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| 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, Research program |
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Imre Lakatos (, ; 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.