Ludwik Fleck
Polish physician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about Ludwik Fleck?
Summarize this article for a 10 year old
Ludwik Fleck (Polish pronunciation: [lud.vik flɛk]; 11 July 1896 – 5 June 1961) was a Polish Jewish[5] and Israeli physician and biologist who did important work in epidemic typhus in Lwów, Poland, with Rudolf Weigl[6] and in the 1930s developed the concepts of the "Denkstil" ("thought style") and the "Denkkollektiv" ("thought collective").
Ludwik Fleck | |
---|---|
Born | (1896-07-11)11 July 1896 |
Died | 5 June 1961(1961-06-05) (aged 64) Ness Ziona, Israel |
Nationality | Polish and Israeli |
Known for | Contributions to logology[1] Denkstil ("thought style")[2] Denkkollektiv (thought collective) Incommensurability (niewspółmierność)[2] |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Jan Kazimierz University |
Influences | Rudolf Weigl |
Academic work | |
Discipline | |
Notable works | Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact (1935, German; 1979, English) |
Influenced | Thomas Kuhn[4] Michel Foucault |
The concept of the "thought collective" defined by him is important in the philosophy of science and in logology (the "science of science"), helping to explain how scientific ideas change over time, much as in Thomas Kuhn's later notion of the "paradigm shift" (on the possible influence of Fleck on Kuhn see[7]) and in Michel Foucault's concept of the "episteme". His account of the development of facts at the intersection of active elements of the thought collective and the passive resistances of nature provides a way of considering the particular culture of modern science as evolutionary and evidence-oriented.[8]