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Imre Lakatos’ thought is very fascinating, but it is also fascinating to study the development of his thought. This development is not at all linear and uniform. On the contrary it is full of great upheavals, and dramatic changes of direction. The works of philosophers who often change their opinion, usually give the impression of a lack of any coherent position. Strange to say, the works of Lakatos, despite his frequent changes of opinion, do not give this impression. The reason for this paradoxical situation is perhaps that at the centre of Imre Lakatos’ philosophy there is a dialectical concept of continual change. His own changes of opinion are, consequently, compatible with his philosophical vision of the world.
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Imre Lakatos, Proofs and Refutations. The Logic of Mathematical Discovery. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1976, p. 3.
Matteo Motterlini (ed.), For and Against Method. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1999, pp. 89–90. This is the English version of Motterlini’s original (1995) Italian edition.
Ibid. ,p. 92.
Ibid. ,p. 89.
Pierre Duhem, The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory,English translation by Philip P. Wiener. New York: Atheneum, 1962, p. 187. The book was originally published as a series of articles in French in the years 1904–5.
Imre Lakatos, “Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes”, in: Imre Lakatos and Alan Musgrave (eds.), Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1970, pp. 91–195. The quotation is from p. 133.
Imre Lakatos, “Changes in the Problem of Inductive Logic”, in: Imre Lakatos (ed.), The Problem of Inductive Logic. Amsterdam: North-Holland 1968, pp. 315–417. The quotation is from p. 322.
Donald Gillies, Philosophy of Science in the Twentieth Century. Four Central Themes. Oxford: Blackwell 1993.
Ibid. ,pp. 214–21.
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Gillies, D. (2002). Lakatos’ Criticisms Of Popper. In: Kampis, G., Kvasz, L., Stöltzner, M. (eds) Appraising Lakatos. Vienna Circle Institute Library, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0769-5_2
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