Editing Imre Lakatos (section)

===Feyerabend===
[[Paul Feyerabend]] argued that Lakatos's methodology was not a methodology at all, but merely "words that ''sound'' like the elements of a methodology".<ref>See {{cite web |url=http://www.galilean-library.org/manuscript.php?postid=43842 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080407233827/http://www.galilean-library.org/manuscript.php?postid=43842 |archive-date=2008-04-07 |author=Paul Feyerabend |title=How to Defend Society Against Science |website=The Galilean Library}}</ref> He argued that Lakatos's methodology was no different in practice from [[epistemological anarchism]], Feyerabend's own position. He wrote in ''[[Science in a Free Society]]'' (after Lakatos's death) that:
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Lakatos realized and admitted that the existing standards of rationality, standards of logic included, were too restrictive and would have hindered science had they been applied with determination. He therefore permitted the scientist to violate them (he admits that science is not "rational" in the sense of ''these'' standards). However, he demanded that research programmes show certain features ''in the long run'' — they must be progressive... I have argued that this demand no longer restricts scientific practice. Any development agrees with it.<ref>Paul Feyerabend (1978). ''Science in a Free Society''. London: NLB. {{ISBN|0-86091-008-3}}.</ref>
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Lakatos and Feyerabend planned to produce a joint work in which Lakatos would develop a rationalist description of science, and Feyerabend would attack it. The correspondence between Lakatos and Feyerabend, where the two discussed the project, has since been reproduced, with commentary, by Matteo Motterlini.<ref>Motterlini, M. (1999). ''For and Against Method''. Chicago: UCP. {{ISBN|9780226467757}}.</ref>