scholarly journals Ludwik Fleck: a Philosopher Forgotten in Ukraine

Idei ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 18-28
Author(s):  
Олег Шепетяк ◽  
Оксана Шепетяк
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Kuhn ◽  
Ludwik Fleck ◽  
Thought Style ◽  
Thought Collective ◽  
Decisive Influence ◽  
Main Emphasis ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Scientific Fact ◽  
Post War

Ludwik Fleck is a philosopher, biologist and physician who had a decisive influence on Thomas Kuhn. The research is dedicated to a publication of the Ukrainian translation of the Fleck’smain work “Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact” by Stefania Ptashnyk. The article deals with the scientific formation of Fleck, describes what happened to his philosophical achievements after his death and the outbreak of his popularity. The article presents the content of all Fleck’s works on philosophy, which are divided into three periods: preparatory, major and post-war. The main emphasis is on the formation of the key concepts of Fleck’s philosophy: “thought style” and “thought collective”.

De-colonizing the Historiography and Archaeology of Ancient Egypt and Nubia. Part 1. Scientific Racism

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 19-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uroš Matić
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Scientific Racism ◽  
Ludwik Fleck ◽  
Thought Style ◽  
Thought Collective ◽  
Disciplinary History

Abstract The process of epistemological de-colonization of the historiography and archaeology of ancient Egypt and Nubia has begun unfolding only in the last two decades. It is still set in the context of descriptive disciplinary history with little reflection on and criticism of background theories and methods. As a consequence, some of the old approaches and concepts live on in the discipline. Utilizing the concepts of “thought collective” and “thought style” (sensu Ludwik Fleck) this paper analyzes previous works on ancient Egypt and Nubia written in the colonial discourse. Three key ideas run like threads through these works: 1. scientific racism, 2. socio-cultural evolution, and 3. colonial and imperial discourse. In this paper the emphasis will be put on scientific racism, its development, and its remnants in the archaeology and historiography of Egypt and Nubia.

scholarly journals The growing presence of Ludwik Fleck’s epistemology in science education research in Brazil

2016 ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Leonir Lorenzetti ◽  
Cristiane Muenchen ◽  
Iône Inês Pinsson Slongo
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Science Education Research ◽  
Santa Catarina ◽  
Thought Style ◽  
Thought Collective ◽  
Scientific Fact ◽  
Data Point

This study centers on the reception of Ludwik Fleck’s epistemology by Science Education research in Brazil. Eighty-nine dissertations and theses from 1995 to 2015 have been analyzed, thirty-seven of which discuss Science Education. The data point to Fleck’s epistemology as the preferred theoretical reference for the most diverse fields of knowledge. The first studies came about in the 1990’s and there is a concentration of works on Science Education at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. A more specific investigation has been carried out on thirty-four works which discuss Science Education. These papers have been analyzed from six angles and the greater volume focuses on “the training of teachers” and “scientific fact emergence”. The significant contribution of the epistemological categories “thought style”, “thought collective”, “intracollective and intercollective circulation of ideas” are highlighted in the process of producing knowledge in the area of focus.

»Eigentümlicher Denkzauber« und »die Aura der Begriffe«

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 255-288
Author(s):  
Pola Groß
Keyword(s):  
Thought Style ◽  
Language Play ◽  
Thought Collective ◽  
Scientific Facts ◽  
Art And Language ◽  
Scholarly Attention

AbstractThis article approaches Ludwik Fleck’s work from a literary perspective. It argues that Fleck is not only concerned with how scientific facts emerge, but, in accordance with his broader epistemology, with how different knowledges of reality emerge, through intra- and intercollective migrations of concepts and thoughts through different styles of thinking. Thus, in order to comprehend such cognitive traversal, interpretation, which I take to be suggested in Fleck’s work, is required. In this, I draw on the work of Andrzej Przyłębski and Dimitri Ginev, who see an implicit hermeneutics anticipated in Fleck’s work. These writings are supplemented and expanded by considering the concept of style, including Fleck’s own style, before examining what role literature, art, and language play in Fleck’s conception of thought style and thought collective. To this end, Fleck’s article »The Problem of Epistemology« from 1936, which has received little scholarly attention so far, is highlighted.

scholarly journals Ludwik Fleck e a presente história das ciências

1994 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilana Löwy
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Kuhn ◽  
Ludwik Fleck ◽  
Scientific Revolutions ◽  
Structure Of Scientific Revolutions

O médico e epistemologista Ludwik Fleck desenvolveu, nas décadas de 1920-30, uma abordagem bastante original para o estudo das ciências. Ele apoiou sua epistemologia em duas bases: por um lado, em sua própria experiência profissional de bacteriologista e imunologista; por outro, na reflexão da Escola Polonesa de Filosofia da Medicina sobre as práticas dos médicos. Tal escola julga que os 'fatos científicos' são construídos por comunidades de pesquisadores - segundo os termos de Fleck, "coletivos de pensamento". Cada coletivo de pensamento elabora um "estilo de pensamento" único, composto pelo conjunto de normas, saberes e práticas partilhados por tal coletivo. Os recém-chegados são socializados em seu estilo de pensamento particular e adotam, portanto, seu olhar específico sobre o mundo. Os fatos científicos produzidos pelos membros de um dado coletivo de pensamento trazem sempre a marca de seu estilo de pensamento. Graças a isso, eles são incomensuráveis com os 'fatos' produzidos por outros coletivos de pensamento. A incomensurabilidade dos fatos científicos, aumentadas pela necessidade de 'traduzi-los' em outro estilo de pensamento para sua utilização pelas outras comunidades profissionais é, aos olhos de Fleck, uma fonte importante de inovação nas ciências e na sociedade. Por muito tempo esquecidas, as idéias de Fleck foram redescobertas nas décadas de 1960-70, em primeiro lugar por Thomas Kuhn (que, na introdução de The structure of scientific revolutions presta uma homenagem explícita à sua obra), depois pelos sociólogos das ciências. Além de sua influência diretamente perceptível, a epistemologia de Fleck mostra profundas afinidades com as novas tendências que se afirmam no estudo das ciências: a consideração das práticas dos pesquisadores e o interesse por suas técnicas materiais, discursivas e sociais.

scholarly journals Traduzindo Fleck: entrevista com Georg Otte e Mariana Camilo de Oliveira

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 1151-1158
Author(s):  
Miriam Junghans
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Kuhn ◽  
Ludwik Fleck

Pesquisas recentes da história das ciências e da sociologia do conhecimento, que entendem a ciência como conhecimento em circulação, apontam a importância do estudo das traduções de obras científicas, que envolvem tanto as circunstâncias sociais de produção quanto as de recepção dessas obras. O depoimento que apresentamos é dos autores da tradução feita diretamente do alemão para o português de Gênese e desenvolvimento de um fato científico, de Ludwik Fleck, citada por Thomas Kuhn no prefácio de A estrutura das revoluções científicas. Com ele, pretende-se oferecer subsídios para a compreensão da importância de Fleck nos estudos sobre a circulação do conhecimento científico desenvolvidos no Brasil.

scholarly journals Ludwik Fleck’s concepts slicing through the Gordian Knot of Serbian Archaeology

2016 ◽  
pp. 88
Author(s):  
Monika Milosavljević
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Theory Of Knowledge ◽  
Thought Style ◽  
Scientific Fact

This article delves into the work of a researcher group based around the Center for Theoretical Archaeology in Belgrade (2007 – present) and the path they have taken to establish a foundation for further archaeological development within Serbia. This process illuminates the conceptual tools Fleck originally formulated - thought collectives, thought style, proto-ideas – which have played a significant role in the deconstruction of the concept of scientific fact and in the historicization / socialization of the theory of knowledge. For the Serbian archaeological community, one of the most fiendish aspects has been the ever present correlation between the field and the construction of a national identity - an especially painful theme for the postwar Balkans whose borders are still imprecisely defined.   Hence, this work pays special attention to long held beliefs of ethnicity, ethnogenesis and continuity, emanating from outdated racial anthropology, but unfortunately still held as fact in Serbian archaeology. 

Fighting for the Empire

2019 ◽  
pp. 16-42
Author(s):  
Dónal Hassett
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
The Political ◽  
Great War ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World

This chapter explores the history of military service in Algeria and across the colonial world before and during the Great War. It introduces the reader to key concepts from the fields of colonial history and First World War studies that are crucial to understanding the political legacies of the entanglement of the colonies and, especially, Algeria with the Great War. Taking a comparative approach, it explains the range of legal categories that underpinned colonial rule within the different empires and considers how the rights and responsibilities they implied were connected to and altered by military service. The chapter also examines the variety of attitudes toward the use of colonial soldiers in the different imperial polities and asks how these influenced the expectations of post-war reform in the colonies.

scholarly journals Contribuições das epistemologias de Kuhn e Fleck para a reforma do ensino médico

2008 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Dalcante Tesser
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Kuhn ◽  
Ludwik Fleck ◽  
A Performance

O objetivo deste artigo é apresentar algumas idéias epistemológicas de Thomas Kuhn e Ludwik Fleck e correlacioná-las entre si e com os desafios da reforma da educação médica, supondo para esta uma finalidade de formação de médicos gerais habilitados, competentes e dispostos para o trabalho no SUS e no PSF (atenção básica). Os conceitos de paradigma e de ciência normal e a visão kuhniana do aprendizado científico são coerentes com os conceitos fleckianos de estilo de pensamento e iniciação nos círculos esotéricos de um coletivo de pensamento. Ambos os autores se reforçam na pertinência da aplicação dessas categorias à medicina e ao seu ensino. Indicam para este ensino diricos de um coletivo de pensamento. Ambos os autores se reforçam na pertinência da aplicação dessas categorias à medicina e ao seu ensino. Indicam para este ereções coes coerentes com a inserção precoce dos alunos na atenção básica e com o aprendizado de práticas e habilidades ambientadas nesses serviços, ensinadas por profissionais que ali pratiquem medicina geral. Além disso, suas teorias facilitam o reconhecimento e o manejo das "reduções paradigmáticas" ou "estilísticas", melhorando a habilidade clínica e a performance ética dos profissionais e alunos.

scholarly journals Becks Konzept der Metamorphose und Flecks Denkstil. Überlegungen zu ihrer Verschränkung

2019 ◽  
pp. 235-258
Author(s):  
Michael Szurawitzki
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Scientific Thinking ◽  
Thinking Style ◽  
Ludwik Fleck ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
The Core ◽  
Layer Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Scientific Fact ◽  
State Of Research

In this paper, an interweaving of the concepts of metamorphosis, developed by Ulrich Beck, and the scientific thinking style of Ludwik Fleck is suggested. Due to our own relevant preliminary work, it seems obvious to bring these two concepts together for the purpose of a theoretical connection useful for linguistics, especially for discourse linguistics. After a short introduction (1) and a review of the state of research on Fleck’s theory of cognition (2), the core term “metamorphosis” is semantically determined (3), and comments are made on the relevance of the concept. This is followed by an analysis of Beck’s The Metamorphosis of the World, which focuses on the concept of metamorphosis as he sees it (4). Here, the linguistic relevance of the concept is emphasized, which Beck mentions explicitly. This is followed by a section on Ludwik Fleck’s Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact (5.). Here, comments are made on Fleck’s thinking style and on the thinking collective. On this basis, the synthesis of Beck’s and Fleck’s ideas is sought (6.), a directed perception with a view to social metamorphoses. This can best be done linguistically using the discourse-linguistic multi-layer analysis (DIMEAN), as proposed by Spitzmüller/Warnke. DIMEAN is presented accordingly, and subsequently modified for the analysis of linguistic manifestations of metamorphosis (6.1). Using the example of various linguistic metamorphosis phenomena from the discourse around the German federal elections of 2017–2018, the applicability of the combination of Beck’s and Fleck’s ideas is then tested (6.2). The article concludes with a summary and perspectives for further research (7).

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