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'''Imre Lakatos''' (1922-1974) was a Hungarian philosopher who studied demarcation criteria and theory choice in science<ref>Musgrave, A. and Pigden, C. 2016, Irme Lakatos, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edited by E. N. Zalta, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University </ref><ref>Chalmers, A. F. 2013. What is This Thing Called Science? Hackett Publishing.</ref>. A protege of [[Karl Popper]], Lakatos attempted to respond to problems posed by the work of Popper and [[Thomas Kuhn|Kuhn]]. His ''Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes'' (MSRP), published in 1978, offers a holistic approach to theory choice which extends beyond Popper's falsificationism, and instead assesses a particular research program as progressive or degenerative, depending on its overall record of predictive and explanatory successes and failures. Lakatos later entered into a correspondence with [[Paul Feyerabend]], with the goal of addressing Feyerabend’s objections to the MSRP. He met an untimely death due to a heart attack at the age of 51. Some of Feyerabend’s objections remain open to this day.