PHILOSOPHER

Imre Lakatos

1922 - 1974

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Imre Lakatos (UK: , US: ; Hungarian: Lakatos Imre [ˈlɒkɒtoʃ ˈimrɛ]; 9 November 1922 – 2 February 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Imre Lakatos has received more than 613,041 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Imre Lakatos is the 217th most popular philosopher (up from 226th in 2019), the 47th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 42nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Hungarian Philosopher.

Lakatos is most famous for his work on the methodology of science. He argued that scientific theories can be progressive, degenerative, or revolutionary.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Imre Lakatos ranks 217 out of 1,267. Before him are Joseph de Maistre, Gaston Bachelard, Rudolf Carnap, Benedetto Croce, Diogenes of Apollonia, and Miguel de Unamuno. After him are George Herbert Mead, Julius Evola, Josef Breuer, Cratylus, Bayazid Bastami, and Nikolai Berdyaev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Imre Lakatos ranks 23. Before him are Liliane Bettencourt, Emil Zátopek, Hiroo Onoda, Aage Bohr, Kurt Vonnegut, and Jack Kerouac. After him are Philip Larkin, Vittorio Gassman, Alain Resnais, Christiaan Barnard, Miguel Muñoz, and Stanley Cohen. Among people deceased in 1974, Imre Lakatos ranks 15. Before him are Vittorio De Sica, Pär Lagerkvist, U Thant, Baldur von Schirach, Duke Ellington, and Virginia Apgar. After him are Julius Evola, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Rudolf Dassler, David Oistrakh, Jacob L. Moreno, and Darius Milhaud.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Imre Lakatos ranks 47 out of 1,077. Before him are Sándor Márai (1900), Sándor Petőfi (1823), Zoltán Kodály (1882), Ágota Kristóf (1935), Coloman, King of Hungary (1070), and László Kubala (1927). After him are Flórián Albert (1941), Lajos Kossuth (1802), Béla III of Hungary (1148), Emmerich Kálmán (1882), Joseph Pulitzer (1847), and Emeric Thököly (1657).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Hungary

Among philosophers born in Hungary, Imre Lakatos ranks 3. Before him are Rudolf Steiner (1861), and György Lukács (1885). After him are Ágnes Heller (1929), Ervin László (1932), Victor Basch (1863), George Gerbner (1919), István Mészáros (1930), Thomas Sebeok (1920), and Stanley Jaki (1924).

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