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A epistemologia de Fleck: uma contribuição ao debate sobre a natureza da ciência

Alexandria, 2015
O objetivo deste trabalho é discutir ideias de Ludwik Fleck através de uma síntese do estudo de caso realizado por Fleck sobre a doença sífilis articulada a um episódio da história da ciência, a reação de Wassermann, e sua relação com outros ...
Neusa Teresinha Massoni, Marco Antonio Moreira   +1 more
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A discussion of a book: Ludwik Fleck. Tradycje – Inspiracje – Interpretacje. Edited by Bożena Płonka-Syroka, Paweł Jarnicki, Bogdan Balicki. Wrocław, Wydawnictwo Fundacji „Projekt Nauka”, 2015, ISBN 978-83-63270-14-8, pp. 313

Studia Historiae Scientiarum, 2017
The article disscuses a set of texts dedicated to the Lvovian microbiologist and theorist of science knowledge – Ludwik Fleck. The article presents the main theses of the texts, taking a substantive and sometimes polemical stance on them.
Michał Rydlewski
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A construção coletiva do conhecimento científico sobre a estrutura do DNA The collective scientific knowledge production on the DNA structure

Ciência & Educação, 2005
Neste artigo, a epistemologia de Ludwik Fleck é utilizada na interpretação de relatos sobre a evolução do conhecimento científico que culminou na proposição do modelo de dupla hélice para a molécula de DNA e sua aceitação pela comunidade científica.
Neusa Maria John Scheid, Nadir Ferrari, Demétrio Delizoicov   +2 more
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For your eyes only: Transcendental pragmatism in Ludwik Fleck

Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science, 2016
Ludwik Fleck’s main contribution lies in the awareness for the deeply social and collective dimension of scientific work, its procedures, but also its style and mode of thinking.
Hartmut von Sass
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Typhus in Buchenwald: Can the Story Be Told?

Ethics in Progress, 2020
Ludwik Fleck is known today primarily as pioneer in the social study of scientific knowledge. However, during World War II he was a prisoner in Buchenwald, where he and other prisoners produced a typhus vaccine for the Nazis, and where he witnessed ...
Ilana Löwy
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On criticism, misrepresentation, and logical fallacy in Egyptology: A response to Aaron de Souza’s review of Ethnic Identities in the Land of the Pharaohs. Past and Present Approaches in Egyptology

Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2023
Reading the books Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact by Ludwik Fleck (1981 [1935]) and Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts by Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar (1986) was in many ways an eye-opening experience.
Uroš Matić
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Ludwik Fleck, Alfred Schutz, and Trust in Science: The Public Responsibility of Science Education in Challenging Times

HoST, 2020
Ludwik Fleck and Alfred Schutz each wrote groundbreaking treatises in the 1930s that laid the foundation for their views on the role of science education in establishing trust in science. This essay examines how science education was for Fleck explicitly
Olesko Kathryn M.
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Difusão do conhecimento científico sobre evolução biológica

Alexandria, 2023
No presente trabalho analisamos comentários de internautas emitidos em matérias de divulgação científica relacionadas a temas de evolução orgânica. O objetivo específico foi diagnosticar limites conceituais relacionados ao entendimento e aceitação da ...
Winis Henrique Rodrigues de Andrade, Antônio Fernando Gouvêa Silva, Fernando Faria Franco   +2 more
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The Concept of Revolution in the Sciences: Michael Polanyi's Differences With Thomas Kuhn on Scientific Revolutions

Natural Sciences, Volume 6, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) was a blockbuster publication that problematized notions about the origins and nature of scientific revolutions. What became Kuhn's famous rubrics of “normal science” and “paradigms” were similar to concepts of “tacit knowledge” and scientific “frameworks” or “dogmas” in Michael ...
Mary Jo Nye
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Contradicting Kuhn's Popular Notion of Scientific Revolution: Conservative Revolutionaries in the History of Biology

Natural Sciences, Volume 6, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Proposing the concept of a conservative revolutionary generally and using the examples of Gregor Mendel, Max Delbrück, and Eric Davidson, I fundamentally call into question Thomas Kuhn's ideas of scientific revolutions. I also highlight some problematic consequences of the increasing appreciation of Kuhn's work among scientists and show that ...
Ute Deichmann
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