A natural extension of the methodology of the scientific research programmes of Imre Lakatos

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Both general relativity and quantum mechanics are paradigms in Kuhn’s sense[1]. Both coexist simultaneously. But in Kuhn’s scheme there is no such situation in which two simultaneous paradigms coexist peacefully. Kuhn’s paradigm is defined primarily from a sociological point of … Read More

Lakatos on Dogmatic Falsificationism

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Sfetcu, Nicolae (2019). “Lakatos on Dogmatic Falsificationism”, in Telework, URL = https://www.telework.ro/en/lakatos-on-dogmatic-falsificationism/   Abstract Dogmatic (naturalist) falsificationism accepts the falsifiability of all scientific theories without qualification but preserves an infallible empirical basis. He is strictly empiric without being inductivist: he … Read More

Imre Lakatos, The methodology of scientific research programmes – An Overview

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Imre Lakatos (1922-1974) was one of the modern philosophers of science and mathematics. His main contribution to philosophy was the development of the concept of methodology of scientific research programmes and the use of this methodology in the rational reconstruction … Read More

Criticism of Falsifiability

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Thomas Kuhn criticized falsifiability because it characterized “the entire scientific enterprise in terms that apply only to its occasional revolutionary parts,” (Kuhn 1970) and it cannot be generalized. In Kuhn’s view, a delimitation criterion must refer to the functioning of … Read More

Lakatos on justificationism

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The methodology of scientific research programmes is an improvement of Popper’s demarcation criterion between science and non-science, a theory of scientific rationality. For Popper, a theory is scientific only if it is empirically falsifiable, that is, if it is possible … Read More