मिथ्याकरण और वैज्ञानिक अनुसंधान-कार्यक्रमों की पद्धति

परिचय

Lakatos presented an early version at the International Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science in London in 1965 and published the expanded paper in Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge (1970), which he edited with Alan Musgrave and which also contains contributions by Kuhn, Popper and Feyerabend. He criticises naive falsificationism – scientists rarely abandon a theory because of a single anomaly – but also Kuhn, in whose account, he says, theory change becomes a matter of “mob psychology”. The unit of appraisal is a research programme: a hard core shielded by a negative heuristic, a protective belt of auxiliary hypotheses and a positive heuristic that guides research. A programme is progressive if it predicts novel facts, degenerating if it only accommodates them afterwards.

संबंध

जिसका उत्तर देता है

• वैज्ञानिक क्रांतियों की संरचना1962 · थॉमस एस. कुहन

जिनकी आलोचना की

• वैज्ञानिक खोज का तर्कशास्त्र1934 · कार्ल पॉपर

इम्रे लक़तोस की और कृतियाँ

• 1976प्रमाण और खंडन