Science sans Subjectivity: The Sad Case of Imre Lakatos

Philosophy of the Social Sciences 51 (5):507-511 (2021)
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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.

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The Lakatosian revolution.Joseph Agassi - 1976 - In R. S. Cohen, P. K. Feyerabend & M. Wartofsky, Essays in Memory of Imre Lakatos. Reidel. pp. 9--21.

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