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Lakato's Hungarian Doctoral Thesis
In 1947, Imre Lakatos completed his doctoral thesis entitled: Socio-Historical Aspects of Concept Formation in Science. This essay was presented in the Hungarian Ministry of Culture for science teachers publication called "Modern Physics, Modern Society." The major theme of his essay was to critique and challenge the world views of English physicists whose metaphysics he claimed was not logically sound by scientific standards of evaluation and analysis. -
Lakatos Receives Doctorate in Philosophy, Cambridge University
After the Soviet Union invaded Hungary, Lakatos fled his home country and eventually moved to England. There, he obtained his doctorate in philosophy at Cambridge University, and while never given rights to citizenship, he held a very respectable position at the London School of Economics where he wrote and lectured on the topics of philosophy of science and mathematics. -
Completion of "Proofs & Refutations"
Between 1963-64, Lakatos published a series of four articles that examined the development of mathematics, with an emphasis on Hegelian philosophic principles such as the development of thought in general and the further development of dialectical analysis of mathematics. Rogers, Leo. "History of mathematics in and for the curriculum." Debates in Mathematics Education. Routledge, 2013. 126-142. -
Essays on Formalism
Lakatos published two papers: "Infinite Regress and the Foundations of Mathematics" (1962) and "A Renaissance of Empiricism in the Recent Philosophy in Mathematics?" (1967). He critiqued logician and formalism in the first paper, while he emphasized critical analysis of empiricism in the second paper, noting that inductivism is a mistake and axioms cannot be confirmed by the truth of their consequences. Larvor, Brendan. Lakatos: an introduction. Psychology Press, 1998. -
"History of Science and its Rational Reconstructions" is Published
This is one of Lakatos's important publications in which he attempted to demonstrate how to properly write or philosophize about the history and intellectuality of science. He perceived the best approach to scientific research, analysis and discovery was by for applying "rational reconstruction." Walt, Stephen M. "The progressive power of realism." American Political Science Review (1997): 931-935.
