Lakatos in a sentence

Lakatos, Musgrave ed. (1970), Pg. 130 The continued adherence to a programme's 'hard core', augmented with adaptable auxiliary hypotheses, reflects Lakatos's less strict standard of falsificationism.

Nikolett Lakatos went to the same school, and was interviewed as a witness by the judge.

After his release, Lakatos returned to academic life, doing mathematical research and translating George Pólya 's How to Solve It into Hungarian.

A theory cannot be rightfully 'falsified', according to Lakatos, until it is superseded by a better (i.e. more progressive) research programme.

Explains how Imre Lakatos developed Popper's philosophy into a historicist and critical theory of scientific method.

Feyerabend playfully dedicated Against Method to "Imre Lakatos: Friend, and fellow-anarchist".

He rejected Lakatos' argument for ad hoc hypothesis, arguing that science would not have progressed without making use of any and all available methods to support new theories.

In Against Method Feyerabend claimed that Imre Lakatos 's philosophy of research programmes is actually "anarchism in disguise", because it does not issue orders to scientists.

Indeed, Popper wrote, several decades before Gray's criticism, in reply to a critical essay by Imre Lakatos : It is true that I have used the terms "elimination", and even "rejection" when discussing "refutation".

In: Imre Lakatos and A. Musgrave: Criticism and the growth of knowledge.

It was Agassi who first introduced Lakatos to Popper under the rubric of his applying a fallibilist methodology of conjectures and refutations to mathematics in his Cambridge PhD thesis.

Lakatos attempted to explain Kuhn's work by arguing that science progresses by the falsification of research programs rather than the more specific universal statements of naïve falsification.

Lakatos claimed that not all changes of the auxiliary hypotheses of a research programme (which he calls 'problem shifts') are equally productive or acceptable.

Lakatos, considering that there was a risk that she would be captured and forced to betray them, decided that her duty to the group was to commit suicide.

Lakatos divided these 'methodological rules' within a research programme into its 'negative heuristics', i.e., what research methods and approaches to avoid, and its 'positive heuristics', i.e., what research methods and approaches to prefer.

Lakatos is critical of those who would see Cauchy's proof, with its failure to make explicit a suitable convergence hypothesis, merely as an inadequate approach to Weierstrassian analysis.

Lakatos' model of the research programme aims to combine Popper's adherence to empirical validity with Kuhn's appreciation for conventional consistency.

Lakatos' model provides for the possibility of a research programme that is not only continued in the presence of troublesome anomalies but that remains progressive despite them.

Lakatos' philosophy of mathematics is sometimes regarded as a kind of social constructivism, but this was not his intention.

Lakatos remained at the London School of Economics until his sudden death in 1974 of a heart attack Donald Gillies.