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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cohen, Robert S
• Schnelle, Thomas

Titel

Cognition and Fact : Materials on Ludwik Fleck

Ist Teil von

• Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science : 87

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

1986

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• I. -- Microbiology and Philosophy of Science, Lw©đw and the German Holocaust: Stations of a Life �́� Ludwik Fleck 1896�́�1961 -- II. Ludwik Fleck�́�s Papers on the Philosophy of Science -- 2.1. Some Specific Features of the Medical Way of Thinking [1927] -- 2.2. On the Crisis of �́�Reality�́� [1929] -- 2.3. Scientific Observation and Perception in General [1935] -- 2.4. The Problem of Epistemology [1936] -- 2.5. Problems of the Science of Science [ 1946] -- 2.6. To Look, To See, To Know [1947] -- 2.7. Crisis in Science [unpublished, 1960] -- III. On Ludwik Fleck�́�s Theory of Knowledge and Science -- 3.1. The Proto-Ideas and Their Aftermath -- 3.2. Polish Philosophy in the Inter-War Period and Ludwik Fleck�́�s Theory of Thought-Styles and Thought-Collectives -- 3.3. Ludwik Fleck and Polish Philosophy -- 3.4. Lw©đw as a Cultural and Intellectual Background of the Genesis of Fleck�́�s Ideas -- 3.5. Ludwik Fleck and the Influence of the Philo
• 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℗Ư mology and of the historical sociology of science, one whose works are comparable with Popper's Logic of Scientific Discovery or Merton's pioneer℗Ư ing study of the relations among economics, Puritanism, and natural science, both also originally published in the mid-1930's. The story of this book of 'materials on Ludwik Fleck' is also the story of the reception of Ludwik Fleck. In this volume, some essential materials which have been produced by that reception have been gathered together. We will sketch both the reception and the materials