Imre Lakatos Philosopher

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	November 09, 1922
Birth place	Kingdom of Hungary (1920–46) , Debrecen
Date of death	February 02, 1974
Place of death	England , London
Era	20th-century philosophy
Main interest	Epistemology Political philosophy Philosophy of mathematics Philosophy of science

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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
philosophical school	Falsifiability Logical positivism Formalism (philosophy)