Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason

Who was Imre Lakatos? a mathematical bildungsroman the mathematical present as history the method of proofs and refutations mathematical scepticism between formal and informal reason inverted a changing logic of scientific discovery Kuhn, Popper, Feyerabend, Lakatos an historiographic toolkit contradiction and hindsight historiography as theory-laden rational reconstruction a changing logic classical political economy as research programme, Magyarorszag - Hungary Hungary 1956 and the inverted world.