Categories: Biographical notes
Imre Lakatos (1922 – 1974) was a philosopher of mathematics and science who was Professor at the London School Of Economics. He proposed the 'methodology of scientific research programmes' – which can be seen as part of the Popper-Kuhn debate about the objectively of 'scientific' knowledge.
Lakatos was Hungarian but fled to Britain after the 1956 uprising. (Hungary was part of the Warsaw pact, and when people rebelled against the Communist leadership the Soviet Union sent in tanks to support the suppress the popular uprising and maintain Hungary's allegience to the Soviets.)
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