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'''Imre Lakatos''' (1922-19741922–1974) was a Hungarian-born philosopher who studied demarcation criteria and theory choice in science.[[CiteRef::Musgrave & Pigden (2016)]][[CiteRef::Chalmers (2013)]] 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) 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.