The Road to Lakatos

My next post is scheduled to be on Imre Lakatos&rsquo;s &ldquo;methodology of scientific research programmes.&rdquo; I&rsquo;m going to cast it as a failed attempt to make science rational that&rsquo;s actually a good dissection of how scientists and people with a scientific temperament are persuaded (not-necessarily-rationally) to make big career bets. But the question of why Lakatos was fixated…