O livro Ludwik Fleck e o Círculo de Viena: história, ciência e linguagem pretende somar esforços a outras iniciativas atuais voltadas para a (re)descoberta das contribuições pioneiras dadas pela teoria da ciência do médico e microbiologista polonês Ludwik Fleck, cujas publicações em Epistemologia foram condenadas a mais de três décadas de ostracismo. Para tanto, o livro concentra suas atenções sobre uma questão de fundamental importância no processo de elaboração das ideias originais de Fl...

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Hoe Ludwik Fleck de nazi's om de tuin leidde in een wetenschapsfilosofisch experiment. Begin 1944 werd de Joodse arts en wetenschapsfilosoof Ludwik Fleck (1896-1961) gedeporteerd naar Buchenwald. Hij moest daar leidinggeven aan een team dat onder doodsbedreiging onderzoek deed naar een vaccin tegen vlektyfus. Na de oorlog beschreef Fleck hoe een 'Nederlandse student biologie' en andere wetenschappelijke dwangarbeiders destijds dachten dat ze op de goede weg waren. Fleck wist beter, maar hi...

This book investigates Ludwik Fleck’s thought as a radical critique of institutionalized knowledge production, clarifying and extending his concepts to form an updated methodology. It reconstructs the cultural and institutional factors that, as Fleck insisted, are interactional – i.e., shaped by entangled processes rather than a single determinant. Offering an alternative to dominant models of cultural change, it demonstrates how new thought styles emerge, circulate, and face resistance in...

O objetivo geral que norteou esta pesquisa foi a investigação dos fatores que contribuíram para que a descoberta da geometria analítica fosse atribuída a Descartes de maneira exclusiva por parte de alguns historiadores, tendo em mente que a presente descoberta não se constituiu em uma controvérsia de seu tempo. Para realizarmos tal intento, foi preciso nos debruçar nas realidades vivenciadas por Descartes e Fermat no século XVII, bem como em suas pesquisas, e comparar o status que ambos ad...

Within the last ten years, the interest of historians and philosophers of science in the epistemological writings of the Polish medical microbiologist Ludwik Fleck (1896-1961), who had up to then been almost completely unknown, has advanced with great strides. His main writings on epistemological questions were published in the mid-1930's, but they remained almost unnoticed. Today, however, one may rightly call Fleck a 'classical' figure both of episte mology and of the historical sociolog...

Originally published in German in 1935, this monograph anticipated solutions to problems of scientific progress, the truth of scientific fact and the role of error in science now associated with the work of Thomas Kuhn and others. Arguing that every scientific concept and theory—including his own—is culturally conditioned, Fleck was appreciably ahead of his time. And as Kuhn observes in his foreword, "Though much has occurred since its publication, it remains a brilliant and largely unexpl...

My 'discovery' of the Polish School of philosophy of medicine stemmed from my studies in the genesis of Ludwik Fleck's epistemology. These studies, and my interest in the scientific roots of Fleck's epistemology were a nearly 'natural' result of my own biography: like Fleck I had been trained, an had worked as an immunologist, and had later switched to studies in the social history of medicine and biology. Moreover, it so happened that Fleck's book, Genesis and Development of a Scientific ...