Proofs and Refutations was first published in 1976 thanks to the editorial work of his colleagues John Worrall and Elie Zahar, and soon became a classic and influential work in the field. The book is ...

In his 1976 book, Proofs and Refutations, Lakatos presents a collection of case studies to illustrate methods of mathematical discovery in the history of mathematics. In this paper, we reframe these ...

Geneticist and president of the Royal Society Sir Paul Nurse discusses the book Conjectures and Refutations by Karl Popper and how it rescued his career as a research scientist. Show more Nobel ...

In this paper we study the method of refutation rules in the modal logic K4. We introduce refutation rules with certain normal forms that provide a new syntactic decision procedure for this logic. As ...

Named after Karl Popper’s hugely influential book, Conjectures and Refutations is a new seminar series for philosophers and scientists with a shared interest in the philosophy of science. The seminars ...

Madam, - Once again I have heard a politician misuse the word "refute" Thu Feb 12 2004 - 00:00 ...

These refutations emerged during the development of Einstein Cartan Evans (ECE) unified field theory, and as that development gathered pace, the refutations became simpler and clearer so that they ...