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Cognition and Fact

Materials on Ludwik Fleck

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  1. Robert S. Cohen
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  2. Thomas Schnelle
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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 87)

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxiii
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  3. Ludwik Fleck’s Papers on the Philosophy of Science

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37
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    3. On the Crisis of ‘Reality’ [1929]

      • Ludwik Fleck
      Pages 47-57

    5. The Problem of Epistemology [1936]

      • Ludwik Fleck
      Pages 79-112

    6. Problems of the Science of Science [1946]

      • Ludwik Fleck
      Pages 113-127

    7. To Look, to See, to Know [1947]

      • Ludwik Fleck
      Pages 129-151

    8. Crisis in Science

      • Ludwik Fleck
      Pages 153-158

  4. On Ludwik Fleck’s Theory of Knowledge and Science

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159
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    2. The Proto-Ideas and Their Aftermath

      • Nathan Rotenstreich
      Pages 161-178

    4. Ludwik Fleck and Polish Philosophy

      • Boguslaw Wolniewicz
      Pages 217-221

    8. Fleck’s Contribution to Epistemology

      • Patrick A. Heelan
      Pages 287-307
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About this book

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 sociology of science, one whose works are comparable with Popper's Logic of Scientific Discovery or Merton's pioneer­ 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.
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cognition and Fact

  • Book Subtitle: Materials on Ludwik Fleck

  • Authors: Robert S. Cohen, Thomas Schnelle

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4498-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company 1986

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1902-7Published: 30 November 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8504-5Published: 20 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-4498-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXIII, 468

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, Sociology, general, History, general

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