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Imre Lakatos
Researcher at London School of Economics and Political Science
Publications - 69
Citations - 20030
Imre Lakatos is an academic researcher from London School of Economics and Political Science. The author has contributed to research in topics: Philosophy of science & Social epistemology. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 69 publications receiving 19654 citations. Previous affiliations of Imre Lakatos include University of London.
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Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes
TL;DR: For centuries knowledge meant proven knowledge, proven either by the power of the intellect or by the evidence of the senses as discussed by the authors. But the notion of proven knowledge was questioned by the sceptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics.
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Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge
Imre Lakatos,Alan Musgrave +1 more
TL;DR: The distinction between normal and revolutionary science hold water as mentioned in this papereyerabend, T. S. Kuhn and T. E. Toulmin have made a distinction between the two categories of science.
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The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the history of science and pseudoscience, and the methodology of scientific research programs, and why Copernicus's research programme superseded Ptolemy's.