Imre Lakatos

Imre Lakatos (UK: /ˈlækətɒs/,[6] US: /-toʊs/; 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....Lakatos's second major contribution to the philosophy of science was his model of the "research programme",[20] which he formulated in an attempt to resolve the perceived conflict between Karl Popper's falsificationism (Falsifiability) and the revolutionary structure of science described by Thomas Kuhn. Popper's standard of falsificationism was widely taken to imply that a theory should be abandoned as soon as any evidence appears to challenge it, while Kuhn's descriptions of scientific activity were taken to imply that science is most fruitful during periods in which popular, or "normal", theories are supported despite known anomalies. Lakatos' model of the research programme aims to combine Popper's adherence to empirical validity with Kuhn's appreciation for conventional consistency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imre_Lakatos