Imre Lakatos

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human philosopher philosopher of mathematics philosopher of science

Imre Lakatos was a Hungarian-born philosopher of mathematics and science best known for his theory of research programmes, which sought to refine and extend Karl Popper’s falsificationism.

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human → philosopher → philosopher of mathematics → philosopher of science →
birthName	Imre Lipschitz →
causeOfDeath	heart attack →
citizenship	Hungary →
countryOfBirth	Hungary →
countryOfCitizenship	Hungary →
countryOfDeath	United Kingdom NERFINISHED →
dateOfBirth	1922-11-09 →
dateOfDeath	1974-02-02 →
educatedAt	Eötvös Loránd University → Moscow State University → University of Cambridge NERFINISHED → University of Debrecen →
employer	London School of Economics and Political Science →
era	20th-century philosophy →
ethnicGroup	Hungarian Jews →
fieldOfWork	philosophy of mathematics → philosophy of science →
gender	male →
influenced	Alan Musgrave → Paul Feyerabend → philosophy of science →
influencedBy	Georg Lukács → Immanuel Kant → Karl Popper →
knownFor	critique of naive falsificationism → theory of research programmes → work on the history and philosophy of mathematics →
languageOfWorkOrName	English → Hungarian →
memberOf	London School of Economics Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method →
movement	critical rationalism → post-positivist philosophy of science →
notableIdea	methodology of scientific research programmes →
notableWork	Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes → Proofs and Refutations → The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes →
placeOfBirth	Debrecen →
placeOfDeath	London →
positionHeld	Professor of Logic → Professor of Philosophy of Science →
pseudonym	Imre Molnár →
religion	atheism →
workLocation	London →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Karl Popper → Karl Popper → The Logic of Scientific Discovery → Thomas Kuhn →	influenced
falsificationism →	criticizedBy
Paul Feyerabend →	influencedBy