The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes¶
Lakatos, I. (1978). The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes. Cambridge University Press.
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- Abduction Log
- Its failure mode is the mirror image: an explanation kept alive by endless ad hoc rescue can look robust to anyone who reads only the latest entry, because each patch individually seemed reasonable — a degenerating problemshift dressed as resilience.
This sourceEdited by John Worrall and Gregory Currie. Cambridge University Press (1978). Characterizes a research programme sustained by increasingly ad hoc adjustments without corroborated novel predictions as undergoing a degenerating problemshift.
- Its failure mode is the mirror image: an explanation kept alive by endless ad hoc rescue can look robust to anyone who reads only the latest entry, because each patch individually seemed reasonable — a degenerating problemshift dressed as resilience.
- Boundary Condition Revision Workshop
- The honest failure mode is epicycles — preserving the theory by bolting on an ad-hoc scope clause for every exception until it fits everything and predicts nothing, the hallmark of a degenerating research programme.
This sourceCharacterizes a degenerating research programme as one protected by ad hoc adjustments that accommodate anomalies without producing novel corroborated predictions.
- The honest failure mode is epicycles — preserving the theory by bolting on an ad-hoc scope clause for every exception until it fits everything and predicts nothing, the hallmark of a degenerating research programme.
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