Ludwik Fleck
| Ludwik Fleck | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 11, 1896 Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | June 5, 1961 (aged 64) Ness Ziona, Israel |
| Nationality | Polish and Israeli |
| Fields |
Philosophy of science Sociology of science |
| Known for | Contributions to logology Denkstil ("thought style") Denkkollektiv (thought collective) Incommensurability (niewspółmierność) |
| Influenced | Thomas Kuhn |
Ludwik Fleck (11 July 1896 – 5 June 1961) was a Polish and Israeli physician and biologist who did important work in epidemic typhus in Lwów, Poland, with Rudolf Weigl and in the 1930s developed the concepts of the "Denkstil" ("thought style") and the "Denkkollektiv" ("thought collective").
The concept of the "thought collective" 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" and in Michel Foucault's concept of the "episteme".
Fleck was born in Lemberg (Lwów in Polish; Lvov in Russian; now L'viv, Ukraine) and grew up in the cultural autonomy of the Austrian province of Galicia. He graduated from a Polish lyceum (secondary school) in 1914 and enrolled at Lwów's Jan Kazimierz University, where he received his medical degree.
In 1920 he became an assistant to the famous typhus specialist Rudolf Weigl at Jan Kazimierz University. From 1923 to 1935 Fleck worked in the department of internal medicine at Lwów General Hospital, then became director of the bacteriological laboratory at the local social security authority. From 1935 he worked at the private bacteriological laboratory which he had earlier founded.
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