Published: 2022-12-30

Kolektyw czy jednostka? Kto tworzy teorie (nie tylko) naukowe? O pewnym szczególe w koncepcji Ludwika Flecka

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Section: studies and essays
https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.11576

(A research article in Polish/ Artykuł w języku polskim)

Abstract

The Collective or the Individual? Who Creates (Not Only) Scientific Theories? On a Particular Detail in the Theory of Ludwik Fleck

The thesis formulated in the 1930s by Ludwik Fleck, that it is not the individual
who autonomously and independently formulates new scientific concepts, is no longer
controversial, as it is assumed that the process of cognition takes place in a social context
and is culturally conditioned. However, the problem of an individual’s participation
in a scientific discovery remains unresolved. Although Fleck himself used the expression exceptionally creative individual to denote a person responsible for a new concept,
he was not yet able to explain in a precise manner the peculiar oscillation of what is social
and what is strictly individual in the process of establishing new concepts. The Polish
microbiologist, however, formulated some important suggestions, which in connection
with the latest research, for example, by T. Hutchins, K. Knorr-Cetina or B. Latour, may
at least bring us closer to a fuller understanding of how the new enters Science.

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Cyzman, M. (2022). Kolektyw czy jednostka? Kto tworzy teorie (nie tylko) naukowe? O pewnym szczególe w koncepcji Ludwika Flecka: (A research article in Polish/ Artykuł w języku polskim). Er(r)go. Theory - Literature - Culture, (45), 105–123. https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.11576

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Er(r)go 45 (2/2022)

No. 45 (2022)
Published: 2023-01-03


ISSN: 1508-6305
eISSN: 2544-3186
Ikona DOI 10.31261/errgo

Publisher
University of Silesia Press | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego i Wydawnictwo Naukowe "Śląsk"

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