The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes is the first volume of Imre Lakatos's Philosophical Papers, edited after his death by John Worrall and Gregory Currie and published by Cambridge University Press in 1978. It gathers his principal essays in the philosophy of science, written between about 1968 and 1974, around a single idea: the unit of scientific appraisal is not an isolated theory but a research programme, a series of theories that develop over time from a shared core.
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About Imre Lakatos
Imre Lakatos (1922–1974) was born Imre Lipsitz in Debrecen, Hungary. He survived the Second World War under an assumed name, while his mother and grandmother were killed at Auschwitz, and he took the surname Lakatos after the war. He worked in the Hungarian Ministry of Education until he was imprisoned from 1950 to 1953, and after the 1956 revolution he left Hungary for Vienna and then England. He completed a Cambridge doctorate on the philosophy of mathematics, which became Proofs and Refutations, and taught at the London School of Economics from 1960, becoming Professor of Logic. He died suddenly in London in February 1974.