Science sans Subjectivity: The Sad Case of Imre Lakatos

Joseph Agassi

doi:10.1177/0048393120976116

Science sans Subjectivity: The Sad Case of Imre Lakatos

Joseph Agassi^*

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Faculty of Humanities

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Lakatos claimed that Popper wrote of beliefs; thus ascribing subjectivism to him Popper flatly denied this, treating it a willful distortion.¹ Ironically, it is the theory of Lakatos that is subjectivist.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	507-511
Number of pages	5
Journal	Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Volume	51
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0048393120976116
State	Published - Sep 2021

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Lakatos
Popper
ad hoc modifications
criticism
subjectivism

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