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Imre Lakatos (Hungarian: Lakatos Imre [ˈlɒkɒtoʃ ˈimrɛ]; November 9 1922 – February 2 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.

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birth date
1922-11-09
birth place
Kingdom of Hungary (1920–46), Debrecen
death date
1974-02-02
death place
England, London
era
20th-century philosophy
individualised GND number
118568817
influenced
Paul Feyerabend, Jean-Claude Milner, Nancey Murphy, John Worrall (philosopher), Alan Chalmers
influenced by
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, George Pólya, Karl Marx, Karl Popper, Paul Feyerabend, Vladimir Lenin, Thomas Kuhn, György Lukács
main interest
Epistemology, Political philosophy, Philosophy of mathematics, Philosophy of science
philosophicalSchool
Falsifiability, Logical positivism, Formalism (philosophy)

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