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2. Ludwik Fleck: pionir sociologije znanosti u okviru idejnih nasljednika.
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UZUNIĆ, Mislav
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SOCIOLOGICAL research ,FACTOR analysis ,PHILOSOPHY of science ,TWENTIETH century ,SOCIAL context ,SHARING - Abstract
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- 2023
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3. “AN UNEXPECTEDLY TRANSGRESSIVE SUBJECT OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY HISTORY”*: HOW TO WRITE (AND WHY TO READ) ABOUT COMMUNIST WOMEN TODAY?
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Mrozik, Agnieszka
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- 2023
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4. Sym fiction. Storytelling als affiziertes Theoretisieren bei Donna Haraway.
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Beregow, Elena
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- 2023
5. FORMATION OF THOUGHT STYLE IN ORGANIZING THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS AND TRAINING OF MEDICAL STUDENTS.
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SHADRINA, Elena, KULIEV, Zakir, and SCHASTLIVTSEVA, Elena
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MEDICAL students ,EDUCATIONAL planning ,SCIENCE education ,PHILOSOPHY of education ,EQUIVALENCE classes (Set theory) ,PHILOSOPHY of science - Abstract
The purpose of the paper is to analyze thought style as a foundation for understanding the operation of scientific education. The theoretical and methodological basis of the work is formed by the concepts of development of science through paradigm shifts, philosophical analysis of thought style, and heuristic capabilities of philosophical comparativism in combination with the hermeneutic method of text interpretation as applied to the sociocultural paradigm of science. The training of a specialist in any scientific field is realized in the framework of the given thought style because the style directs the perception and determines the nature of work with the empirical material and the form of solving problematic situations. Training provides not only an increment of specialized knowledge but also a projection of a general cultural communicative orientation. Thus, the construction of how one should perceive, understand, evaluate, and apply can be viewed as the construction and implementation of an appropriate educational strategy. The concept of thought styles is one of the most successful methodologies for explaining not only the movement of science but also the implementation of education in science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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6. Refused-knowledge during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Mobilising Experiential Expertise for Care and Well-being.
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Crabu, Stefano, Picardi, Ilenia, and Turrini, Valentina
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COVID-19 pandemic , *WELL-being , *SCIENTIFIC knowledge , *EXPERTISE , *SOCIAL history , *LIFE sciences - Abstract
Since the early period of the COVID-19 pandemic concerned groups of people have produced knowledge refused by institutional science of how to manage public health and individual well-being in everyday pandemic life. Research in science and technology studies seeks to understand the social and cultural conditions under which contestation over scientific knowledge claims occurs. In the Italian case, 'refused' knowledge claims emerging outside institutionalised science play a performative role in questioning the current models for managing individual and public health. Such refused claims ascribe novel meanings to the COVID-19 pandemic and orient the ways in which people manage their own health and well-being during their everyday life. Two interrelated dimensions are at stake in the production and enactment of refused knowledge: (1) how experiential expertise is mobilised to reframe one's body in a process of self-care, thus validating a corpus of refused knowledge through personal experience, and (2) how narratives demarcate between a body of refused knowledge and the prevalent biomedical paradigms as a way of gaining experiential epistemic autonomy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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7. As dinâmicas dos campos de saberes e práticas e seus objetos indisciplinados.
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Barradas Barata, Rita
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PUBLIC health ,ENUNCIATION ,COOPERATION ,AUTHORS ,THEORY of knowledge - Abstract
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- 2023
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8. Imagination, geniuses and thought collectives
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Łukasz Mścisławski
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scientific revolution ,old quantum theory ,special relativity ,thought collective ,physics ,philosophy of science ,Philosophy (General) ,B1-5802 - Abstract
In his book Wojciech Sady attempts to reconstruct the structure of the fundamental transformations that can be described as the relativistic and quantum revolution. Referring to rich historical material and Ludwik Fleck’s reflections on the development of scientific knowledge, the author tries to explain how it is possible that “scientists began to think differently than they had been taught.” Sady’s work, although not devoid of somewhat weaker points, is a brave and thought-provoking attempt to propose his own explanation of the mechanisms of the aforementioned transformations.
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- 2021
9. Kolektyw czy jednostka? Kto tworzy teorie (nie tylko) naukowe? O pewnym szczególe w koncepcji Ludwika Flecka.
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Cyzman, Marzenna
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- 2022
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10. Grobler o prawdzie i o społecznej naturze poznania.
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SADY, WOJCIECH
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I agree with many of Adam Grobler’s theses, but several others raised my objection. (1) A.G. does not want to call scientific claims true. It is not so: very much of what scientists say about the world is true (in the classic sense), and scientists know it is. (2) A.G. leads us astray when he writes that the acceptance or rejection of hypotheses is determined, at least sometimes, by expert votes. It is not so: further research is the decisive factor in accepting or rejecting hypotheses in science. (3) While A.G. is aware of some social determinants of knowledge, he ultimately states: “individuals are the subjects of scientific knowledge.” Contrary to this, I argue that one can only be a scientist as a member of a scientific thought collective. (4) A.G. believes that scientific knowledge is based on presuppositions, accepted unconsciously, that give meaning to statements made openly. After Wittgenstein, I repeat: “After all, nothing is concealed.” [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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11. FLECK, PRECURSOR AL LUI KUHN. DE LA „STIL” LA „PARADIGMĂ”.
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STOENESCU, CONSTANTIN
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SCIENTIFIC Revolution , *SCIENTIFIC community - Abstract
In the “Foreword” to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn mentions some of the forerunners of his ideas, including an “unknown monograph” by Ludwik Fleck. Later, Kuhn will write the introduction to the English edition of this book and will thus contribute to increasing interest in Fleck's work. My goal in this research is to analyse to what extent Fleck's conception really leads to Kuhn's theory and to compare the two theories. The main stake is represented by the concepts of “style” and “paradigm” and the analysis of how the relationship between two styles or two paradigms can be understood in terms of incommensurability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
12. Bridge over troubled water: managing compatibility and conflict among thought collectives in sustainability science.
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Soininen, Niko, Raymond, Christopher M., Tuomisto, Hanna, Ruotsalainen, Laura, Thorén, Henrik, Horcea-Milcu, Andra-Ioana, Stojanovic, Milutin, Lehtinen, Sanna, Mazac, Rachel, Lamuela, Carlos, Korpelainen, Noora, Vainio, Annukka, Toivanen, Reetta, McPhearson, Timon, and Nagatsu, Michiru
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CONFLICT management ,SUSTAINABILITY ,KNOWLEDGE management ,FOOD production - Abstract
Sustainability transformations call forth new forms and systems of knowledge across society. However, few tools and processes exist for promoting dialogue among different interests and normative stances in knowledge co-creation. In this article, we build on the notion of thought collectives to argue that understanding and moderating normative tensions are necessary if sustainability science is to provide successful solutions. Drawing on an analysis of the normative tensions between rival high-tech and low-tech thought collectives in the mobility and food production sectors, we discuss three strategic approaches: applying common evaluative frameworks, building contextual convergence and embracing complexity. We argue that these strategies indicate a need to distinguish different kinds of reflexivity in managing tensions among thought collectives. As a practical conclusion, we establish sets of reflexive questions to help sustainability scientists deploy the knowledge management strategies discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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13. Exploring the long-term effect of strategy work: The case of Sustainable Sydney 2030.
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Kornberger, Martin, Meyer, Renate E, and Höllerer, Markus A
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URBAN studies , *A priori - Abstract
Strategy has become an important concern and practical tool in urban management and governance, with the literature highlighting implementation as a hallmark of effective strategy. Whilst such a strategy–action link (which we label here as 'implementation nexus') has been well established, other long-term effects have been documented in less detail. Our study of Sustainable Sydney 2030 finds that strategy was effective to the extent to which it changed the institutional a priori of what a collective of actors engaged in city-making knows, what it can articulate and how its members relate to each other. We capture this effect as 'institution nexus' and theorise our findings with Ludwik Fleck's concept of 'thought style' of a focal 'thought collective'– notions that also centrally influenced Mary Douglas' work on 'how institutions think'. We contribute to extant research by adding the institution nexus as a long-term effect of urban strategy as well as by advancing strategy theory in urban studies to foreground its ability to shape institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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14. THE PHILOSOPHER AHEAD OF HIS TIME. LUDWIK FLECK AND THE COMPLEXITY OF SCIENCE (COMMUNICATION AND NOTES)
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Emanuele Coco
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philosophy of science ,sociology of science ,thomas kuhn ,ludwik fleck ,thought collective ,thought style ,Philosophy (General) ,B1-5802 - Abstract
The new edition in Italian of the articles by the Polish microbiologist and philosopher Ludwik Fleck (1896-1961) edited by Francesco Coniglione offers the opportunity for some considerations around this significant scholar. Fleck anticipates Kuhn's ideas as well as those of the sociology of science. For him, any epistemology that does not take psychological and sociological methods into account, or that does not concern itself with economics, technology, art, and even politics, is an epistemology imaginabilis. Here we discuss some key points of the essays collected in the book, some observations taken from the rich introduction of the editor, and an inevitable question: Why has Fleck been neglected for so long?
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- 2020
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15. State of competition: conceptual shoehorning behind priority on calcitonin precursor biosynthesis
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Enrique Wulff
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anatomy ,thyroid ,endocrinology ,madrid ,calcitonin ,thyrocalcitonin ,pro-calcitonin ,instituto gregorio marañón ,jose fernández nonídez ,conceptual shoehorning ,thought collective ,History of scholarship and learning. The humanities ,AZ20-999 ,Science (General) ,Q1-390 - Abstract
Until the 1950s, the first results in the studies of calcitonin-thyrocalcitonin were ignored in the accepted research scheme. However, it was José Fernández Nonídez from the Spanish School of Histology, died in Augusta (Georgia, USA) in 1947, whose expertise in the parafollicular cells of the mammalian thyroid had led him to an advanced understanding of this separate endocrine organ, which secretes calcitonin. The antecedent of the secretion was present in the cytoplasm of these cells, which Nonídez explained in a paper published in 1932. In 1973, a Spanish group from the Instituto Gregorio Marañón (Madrid) leading the research into the ectopic production of calcitonin identified the precursor responsible for its biosynthesis. Nonetheless, given the informal power in connection with the communication between the scientists, this significative contribution was absolutely discarded in terms of acknowledgment within their social circle. The services responsible for dissemination of scientific knowledge considered that priority should be given to another group of young scientists dedicated to pro-calcitonin evidence. The nature and extent of informal communication are highlighted in countries with different measures to guarantee the autonomy and independence of their state powers. Irrespectively of political circumstances, the paper is focused on the competition between two different approaches in science particularly important for progress in medicine: the perspective presented by experimental studies in basic sciences (in animals) and the models developed in clinical sciences.
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- 2019
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16. Uses of Online Resources and Documentational Trajectories: The Case of Sésamath
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Rocha, Katiane de Moraes, Kaiser, Gabriele, Editor-in-chief, Fan, Lianghuo, editor, Trouche, Luc, editor, Qi, Chunxia, editor, Rezat, Sebastian, editor, and Visnovska, Jana, editor
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- 2018
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17. Introduction to 'Theoretical Pathways': Thinking About Human Endeavour During the Middle Stone Age and Middle Palaeolithic.
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Högberg, Anders and Lombard, Marlize
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In this brief introduction, we present and contextualise 'theoretical pathways' elaborated in this special issue, in terms of understanding humanity from a deep-time perspective. The participating authors discuss a wide range of approaches related to thinking about human endeavour during the Middle Stone Age and Middle Palaeolithic ranging from the constraints of technological niches and Material Engagement Theory to aspects of palaeo-neurology, agent-based models of self-domestication and co-evolutionary model building. Together, the contributions demonstrate that current theoretical approaches that aim to explain deep-time human endeavour require multi-disciplinary approaches, and that for some researchers, the trend is to move away from the symbolic standard or models of sudden mutation. By doing so, each contribution, in its own way, enhances our understanding of 'being' or 'becoming' human during the time slice between 300,000 and 30,000 years ago. The work represented here makes it increasingly clear that a singular or particular aspect did not 'give birth' to Homo sapiens in Africa during the Middle Stone Age and/or in Eurasia during the Middle Palaeolithic. Instead, humanity in all its complexity was probably shaped by a broad range of factors and processes that took place over an extended period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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18. Naissance d’une coopération dans un ESAT : quand des moniteurs d’atelier, un travailleur et un chercheur apprennent à travailler ensemble
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Caroline Perraud
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cooperative engineering ,thought collective ,JATD (Joint action theory in didactics) ,intellectual disability ,ESAT (institution for help to disabled adults through work) ,assessment ,Education - Abstract
For intellectually disabled adults, the place of fundamental knowledge (reading, writing and counting) remains a live question in our society where writing is omnipresent. This article is a description and an analysis of the first steps of an cooperation between members of a collective committed in a cooperative engineering (Sensevy, 2011) of which practice fields seem at first view distant from one another: staff in an ESAT (Etablissement Service d’Aide par le Travail: institution for help to disabled adults through work) adults with disabilities (called workers) and a researcher (the author of this article). More specifically, we will answer the following questions: what happens when actors from different cultures learn to work together? What is this new cooperation transforming? To do this, we will focus on cooperation in the ESAT restoration workshop between a worker, Walter, the instructors of this workshop and the researcher. Together, they will develop an accessibility tool, called constellation cards, that will allow Walter to mobilize counting in his professional activity.
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- 2019
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19. THE PHILOSOPHER AHEAD OF HIS TIME. LUDWIK FLECK AND THE COMPLEXITY OF SCIENCE (COMMUNICATION AND NOTES).
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Coco, Emanuele
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PSYCHOLOGICAL techniques ,BOOK collecting ,ACCOUNTING methods ,PHILOSOPHY of science ,THEORY of knowledge - Abstract
The new edition in Italian of the articles by the Polish microbiologist and philosopher Ludwik Fleck (1896-1961) edited by Francesco Coniglione offers the opportunity for some considerations around this significant scholar. Fleck anticipates Kuhn's ideas as well as those of the sociology of science. For him, any epistemology that does not take psychological and sociological methods into account, or that does not concern itself with economics, technology, art, and even politics, is an epistemology imaginabilis. Here we discuss some key points of the essays collected in the book, some observations taken from the rich introduction of the editor, and an inevitable question: Why has Fleck been neglected for so long?. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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20. THE PUZZLE OF THE BANQUET HALL OF THE DUKES: THE PROFESSIONALIZATION OF SWEDISH HISTORICAL RESEARCH STUDIED THROUGH LUDWIK FLECK'S "THOUGHT COLLECTIVE" AND "THOUGHT STYLE".
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HARLITZ‐KERN, ERIKA
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MEDIEVAL historiography , *HALLS (Buildings) , *COLLECTIVE consciousness , *HISTORIANS , *PHILOSOPHY of history ,SWEDISH history, to 1397 - Abstract
In 1312, the Swedish dukes Erik and Valdemar Magnusson married the Norwegian princesses Ingeborg Haakons daughter and Ingeborg Eriks daughter at a ceremony in Oslo, Norway. In 1313, the two couples were reunited at a purpose‐built banquet hall, believed to have been located in the medieval Swedish town of Lödöse. The main source of information concerning these events is the Swedish medieval rhyme chronicle The Chronicle of Duke Erik. However, a closer reading of the chronicle reveals that Lödöse is never mentioned in relation to the banquet hall. The article discusses the passing down of knowledge through generations of the same professional collective, in this case the professional collective of Swedish historians during the twentieth century, and demonstrates how the validity of once‐established prescientific knowledge persists. To achieve its goal, the article applies Ludwik Fleck's terms "thought collective," "thought style," and "tenacity in science," as well as Thomas Kuhn's concept of the "paradigm," to a historiographical case study of how the proto‐idea of the banquet hall being located at Lödöse has survived to become an established scientific fact. The location of the banquet hall concerns but a minor detail in the turbulent political situation of the Swedish kingdom during the first decades of the fourteenth century. However, the continuing reiteration of this minor detail is evidence of a larger phenomenon, namely how contemporary historical research is influenced by scholars in the prescientific past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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21. Before reflexivity comes preflexivity : or how to make sociology more open
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Engstam, Anna and Engstam, Anna
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Vilken betydelse har det förvetenskapliga för vetenskapen? Vilka betydelser kan det ha? Ska vi som forskare eftersträva största möjliga vetenskaplighet från början till slut? Annorlunda uttryckt: Ska vi metodiskt trycka bort våra förvetenskapliga impulser? Eller ska vi tvärtom välkomna dem? Att följa varje förvetenskaplig impuls, var vi än befinner oss i forskningsprocessen, skulle förmodligen få till följd att processen aldrig tog slut – åtminstone inte genom formulering av slutsatser. Att å andra sidan hålla sig och sina forskningsförehavanden inom det [redan] vetenskapliga kan knappast resultera i mer än så kallad normalforskning – vi kan fylla igen kunskapsluckor men ritar inte om våra kunskapskartor. Följaktligen skulle forskningen bli mindre och mindre intressant om inga forskare tog sig friheten att emellanåt gå på intuition. I och med denna essä introduceras en idé om betydelsen av det slags tänkande som per definition föregår vad vi i vardagligt tal kallar en snilleblixt. Jag har valt att begreppsliggöra detta slags tänkande i termer av preflexivitet. Syftet är att bryta med idéer om att vi i tanke och handling antingen är reflexiva eller förreflexiva. I svenska språket märks detta begränsa[n]de tankesätt i avsaknaden av ett fast uttryck för att tänka före (jfr. tänka efter); antingen tänker vi efter eller också rör vi oss i gamla hjulspår (förreflexivitet). Min poäng är att vi kan tänka över något på olika sätt – mer reflexivt eller mer preflexivt. Texten kan läsas som en fristående fortsättning på en tidigare artikel i Global Dialogue 13(2).
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- 2023
22. The beginnings of the reception of Ludwik Fleck’s ideas in Polish (1936-1989)
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Paweł Jarnicki
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Ludwik Fleck ,thought style ,thought collective ,reception of Ludwik Fleck’s ideas in Poland ,History (General) ,D1-2009 ,Philosophy (General) ,B1-5802 ,Science (General) ,Q1-390 - Abstract
The article discusses the beginnings of the reception of Ludwik Fleck’s theory of thought styles and thought collectives in Polish, from his first polemics with Izydora Dąmbska in 1936 to the first edition of the Polish translation of Entstehung und Entwicklung
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- 2016
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23. ZASKAKUJĄCE POJĘĆ WĘDRÓWKI I ZWIĄZKI. O KOLEKTYWIE MYŚLOWYM LUDWIKA FLECKA I WSPÓLNOCIE INTERPRETACYJNEJ STANLEYA FISHA.
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Cyzman, Marzenna
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LITERARY interpretation ,SOCIOLOGY of knowledge ,COGNITION ,COMMUNITIES ,DELIBERATION ,COLLECTIVE memory - Abstract
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- 2019
24. State of competition: conceptual shoehorning behind priority on calcitonin precursor biosynthesis.
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Wulff, Enrique
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CALCITONIN ,BIOSYNTHESIS ,SECRETION ,ECTOPIC hormones ,SCIENTIFIC knowledge - Abstract
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- 2019
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25. Theorieatmosphären. Soziologische Denkstile als affektive Praxis
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Beregow, Elena
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- 2021
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26. Las dinámicas de los campos de saberes y prácticas y sus objetos indisciplinados
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Rita Barradas Barata
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Scientific field ,Public health ,Health (social science) ,Coletivo de pensamento ,Epistemología ,Communication ,Epistemologia ,Epistemology ,General Medicine ,Saúde Coletiva ,Education ,Episteme ,Salud colectiva ,Colectivo de pensamiento ,Campo científico ,Thought collective - Abstract
O objetivo deste ensaio foi refletir sobre a dinâmica das áreas de conhecimento no interior do campo da Saúde Coletiva. O ensaio foi construído a partir das obras de Fleck, Bourdieu, Foucault, Deleuze e Guattari e da experiência da autora. Esses pensadores trataram de diferentes faces da produção científica, ressaltando seu caráter social e histórico, a construção dos objetos, as formas de enunciação, os processos de trabalho, os métodos e as relações internas e externas. São destacados aspectos políticos e reflexões sobre as relações entre várias formas de saber e o conhecimento científico. Foram tematizadas as relações da Epidemiologia no interior do campo da Saúde Coletiva e apontados movimentos no sentido de superar barreiras e dificuldades na cooperação entre ciências e disciplinas nesse campo. The aim of this essay is to reflect upon the dynamics of areas of knowledge within the field of public health. The essay draws on the works of Fleck, Bourdieu, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, and the experiences of the author. These authors dealt with different facets of scientific output, highlighting its social and historic nature, the construction of objects, forms of enunciation, work processes, methods, and internal and external relations. We highlight political aspects of and reflections on the relationships between various forms of knowledge and science. We thematize epidemiological relations within the field of public health and highlight movements towards overcoming barriers and difficulties in cooperation between the sciences and disciplines in this field. El objetivo de este ensayo fue reflexionar sobre la dinámica de las áreas de conocimiento en el interior del campo de la Salud Colectiva. El ensayo se construyó a partir de las obras de Fleck, Bourdieu, Foucault, Deleuze y Guattari y de la experiencia del autor. Esos autores trataron de diferentes faces de la producción científica, subrayando su carácter social e histórico, la construcción de los objetos, las formas de enunciación. Los procesos de trabajo, los métodos y las relaciones internas y externas. Se destacan aspectos políticos y reflexiones sobre las relaciones entre varias formas de saber y el conocimiento científico. Se plantearon como tema las relaciones de la Epidemiología en el interior del Campo de la Salud Colectiva y se señalaron movimientos en el sentido de superar barreras y dificultades en la cooperación entre ciencias y asignaturas en ese campo.
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- 2023
27. Caves and Doxa
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Rosengren, Mats and Rosengren, Mats
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- 2012
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28. On Constructing a Scientific Archives Network
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Bethany G. Anderson
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Sociology of scientific knowledge ,Scientific thought ,Cybernetics ,Human condition ,Sociology ,Library and Information Sciences ,Thought collective ,History of science and technology ,Epistemology - Abstract
Computational approaches to archives present archivists and users with new ways of engaging with records and their provenance. Such approaches are particularly useful for scientific archives due to the collective and collaborative nature of modern scientific knowledge production. This article explores computational approaches to digitized fonds of scientists involved in the transdisciplinary scientific movement cybernetics through the Cybernetics Thought Collective: A History of Science and Technology Portal Project as a means to reveal the ways cyberneticians have developed concepts and debated ideas through the creation and exchange of correspondence and other records. The project has experimented with machine-learning and natural-language-processing tools to generate data from the materials in an effort to reveal connections between the cyberneticians and their correspondence. Cybernetics seeks to understand the human condition through experiments with machines, and, in a cybernetically inspired sense, so too do archivists seek to understand their archives through experiments with machines. Such explorations are important for documenting scientific thought collectives like cybernetics in a digital age., Les approches informatiques aux archives présentent aux archivistes et aux utilisateurs de nouvelles façons d’entrer en relation avec les documents et leur provenance. De telles approches sont particulièrement utiles pour les archives scientifiques de par la nature collective et collaborative de la production moderne du savoir scientifique. Cet article explore les approches numériques aux fonds numérisés de scientifiques impliqués dans le mouvement scientifique interdisciplinaire de la cybernétique par le biais du Cybernetics Thought Collective: A History of Science and Technology Portal Project en tant que moyen de mettre en lumière la façon dont les cybernéticiens ont développé le concept et débattu d’idées en créant et en échangeant de la correspondance et d’autres documents. Ce projet a expérimenté avec l’apprentissage automatique et des outils de traitement automatique du langage naturel pour générer des données à partir de matériel dans le but de mettre en lumière des liens entre les cybernéticiens et leur correspondance. La cybernétique cherche à comprendre la condition humaine par le biais d’expérimentation avec les machines et, d’un point de vue inspiré par la cybernétique, c’est également ce que font les archivistes qui tentent de comprendre leurs archives à travers l’expérimentation avec les machines. De telles explorations sont importantes pour documenter les réflexions scientifiques collectives comme la cybernétique à l’ère du numérique.
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- 2021
29. Ludwik Fleck: a Philosopher Forgotten in Ukraine
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Оksana Shepetiak and Oleh Shepetiak
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Philosophy ,Ukrainian ,“thought style” ,B1-5802 ,Thought collective ,Popularity ,language.human_language ,Thought style ,“thought collective” ,scientific fac ,language ,Philosophy (General) ,Content (Freudian dream analysis) ,Classics ,science - Abstract
Ludwik Fleck is a philosopher, biologist and physician who had a decisive influence on Thomas Kuhn. The research is dedicated to a publication of the Ukrainian translation of the Fleck’smain work “Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact” by Stefania Ptashnyk. The article deals with the scientific formation of Fleck, describes what happened to his philosophical achievements after his death and the outbreak of his popularity. The article presents the content of all Fleck’s works on philosophy, which are divided into three periods: preparatory, major and post-war. The main emphasis is on the formation of the key concepts of Fleck’s philosophy: “thought style” and “thought collective”.
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30. THE PUZZLE OF THE BANQUET HALL OF THE DUKES: THE PROFESSIONALIZATION OF SWEDISH HISTORICAL RESEARCH STUDIED THROUGH LUDWIK FLECK'S 'THOUGHT COLLECTIVE' AND 'THOUGHT STYLE'
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Erika Harlitz‐Kern
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Banquet ,Philosophy ,History ,Comparative historical research ,Middle Ages ,Thought collective ,Professionalization ,Classics ,Thought style - Published
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31. Refused-knowledge during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Mobilising Experiential Expertise for Care and Well-being
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Stefano Crabu, Ilenia Picardi, Valentina Turrini, Crabu, Stefano, Picardi, Ilenia, and Turrini, Valentina
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Cultural Studies ,thought collective ,Health (social science) ,History and Philosophy of Science ,Sociology and Political Science ,Italy ,refused knowledge eweb ethnography ,Biomedical Engineering ,COVID-19 pandemic ,Biotechnology ,thought style - Abstract
Since the early period of the COVID-19 pandemic concerned groups of people have produced knowledge refused by institutional science of how to manage public health and individual well-being in everyday pandemic life. Research in science and technology studies seeks to understand the social and cultural conditions under which contestation over scientific knowledge claims occurs. In the Italian case, ‘refused’ knowledge claims emerging outside institutionalised science play a performative role in questioning the current models for managing individual and public health. Such refused claims ascribe novel meanings to the COVID-19 pandemic and orient the ways in which people manage their own health and well-being during their everyday life. Two interrelated dimensions are at stake in the production and enactment of refused knowledge: (1) how experiential expertise is mobilised to reframe one’s body in a process of self-care, thus validating a corpus of refused knowledge through personal experience, and (2) how narratives demarcate between a body of refused knowledge and the prevalent biomedical paradigms as a way of gaining experiential epistemic autonomy.
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32. Scientific Images as Circulating Ideas: An Application of Ludwik Fleck's Theory of Thought Styles.
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Mößner, Nicola
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Without doubt, there is a great diversity of scientific images both with regard to their appearances and their functions. Diagrams, photographs, drawings, etc. serve as evidence in publications, as eye-catchers in presentations, as surrogates for the research object in scientific reasoning. This fact has been highlighted by Stephen M. Downes who takes this diversity as a reason to argue against a unifying representation-based account of how visualisations play their epistemic role in science. In the following paper, I will suggest an alternative explanation of the diversity of scientific images. This account refers to processes which are caused by the social setting of science. What exactly is meant by this, I will spell out with the aid of Ludwik Fleck's theory of the social mechanisms of scientific communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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33. Fleck the Public Health Expert.
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Löwy, Ilana
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Ludwik Fleck is known mainly for his pioneering studies of science as a social activity. This text investigates a different aspect of Fleck’s epistemological thought—his engagement with normative aspects of medicine and public health and their political underpinnings. In his sinuous professional trajectory, Fleck navigated between two distinct thought styles: fundamental microbiological research and practice-oriented investigations of infectious diseases. Fleck’s awareness of tensions between these two approaches favored the genesis of his theoretical reflections. At the same time, his close observation of medical and epidemiological practices led him to the conclusion that collectively produced scientific facts are situated and fragile. Thought collectives, Fleck explained, can err or yield to external pressures, with potentially disastrous consequences. While Fleck the reflexive experimental scientist has been creatively translated into the science studies idiom, Fleck the reflexive practical microbiologist and public health expert still awaits inspired translation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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34. Determinación sexual: ¿cómo estructura la biomedicina contemporánea su discurso sobre la génesis de la diferencia? Un estudio con foco en Argentina
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Marcela Belardo and Luciana Hadid
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HQ1-2044 ,Sociology of science ,Sexual difference ,Women. Feminism ,Philosophy ,Gender ,HQ1101-2030.7 ,Determinación sexual ,Thought collective ,Sex determination ,Biología del desarrollo ,Diferencia sexual ,Developmental biology ,The family. Marriage. Woman ,Género ,Humanities ,Sociología de la ciencia - Abstract
espanolEl discurso biomedico contemporaneo sostiene que el elemento determinante del sexo humano es el camino de desarrollo tomado por las gonadas al comienzo de la vida. A traves de un proceso conocido como determinacion sexual, esas estructuras dejan de ser organos sexualmente indiferenciados para transformarse en ovarios o testiculos, en un enfoque binario. Eso define el resto del desarrollo genital. El objetivo de este articulo es identificar quienes elaboran el discurso biomedico sobre determinacion sexual entre 1990 y 2015, y que materiales producen. Este analisis esta enmarcado en la propuesta teorica de Ludwik Fleck, a partir del concepto de colectivo de pensamiento. La metodologia es cualitativa, con fuentes primarias y secundarias. La determinacion sexual es enunciada como un proceso estrictamente natural que no constituye un objeto epistemologico. Este discurso perpetua condiciones opresivas y normalizadoras que resultan centrales en la estructuracion de la verdad biomedica sobre el cuerpo normal. EnglishContemporary biomedical discourse holds that the determining element of human sex is the path of development taken by the gonads at the beginning of life. Through a process known as sex determination, these structures cease to be sexually undifferentiated organs to become ovaries or testicles, in a binary approach. That defines the rest of the genital development. The objective of this article is to identify who elaborate the biomedical discourse on sexual determination between 1990 and 2015, and what materials they produce. This analysis is framed in the theoretical proposal of Ludwik Fleck, based on the concept of thought collective. The methodology is qualitative, with primary and secondary sources. Sex determination is enunciated as a strictly natural process that does not constitute an epistemological object. This discourse perpetuates oppressive and normalizing conditions that are central to the structuring of biomedical truth about the normal body.
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35. The Philosopher Ahead of His Time. Ludwik Fleck and the Complexity of Science (Communication and Notes)
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Emanuele Coco
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thought collective ,Philosophy of science ,Sociology of scientific knowledge ,ludwik fleck ,lcsh:Philosophy (General) ,Philosophy ,thomas kuhn ,Thought collective ,Epistemology ,Thought style ,philosophy of science ,Science communication ,sociology of science ,lcsh:B1-5802 ,thought style - Abstract
The new edition in Italian of the articles by the Polish microbiologist and philosopher Ludwik Fleck (1896-1961) edited by Francesco Coniglione offers the opportunity for some considerations around this significant scholar. Fleck anticipates Kuhn's ideas as well as those of the sociology of science. For him, any epistemology that does not take psychological and sociological methods into account, or that does not concern itself with economics, technology, art, and even politics, is an epistemology imaginabilis. Here we discuss some key points of the essays collected in the book, some observations taken from the rich introduction of the editor, and an inevitable question: Why has Fleck been neglected for so long?
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36. Tracing neoliberalism in Italy: intellectual and political connections
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Fabio Masini
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Politics ,History and Philosophy of Science ,General Arts and Humanities ,Neoliberalism (international relations) ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Political economy ,Political science ,Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) ,World War II ,Ideology ,Thought collective ,media_common - Abstract
Neoliberalism was a powerful ideology and ‘thought collective’ between the two World Wars and after WWII. The paper aims to enquire into the channels through which neoliberalism dwelled in ...
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37. Conference Report: Project Journal of Discourse Research and the Prospects of Disciplinary, Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Cooperation
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Nils Matzner and Lisa-Marian Schmidt
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discourse ,discourse research ,dispositif ,thought collective ,ZfD ,interdisciplinarity ,transdisciplinarity ,Social sciences (General) ,H1-99 - Abstract
A symposium was held to mark the first anniversary of Journal of Discourse Research (ZfD), at which the status of German discourse research was discussed. Since its inception, German-language discourse research has been characterized by connections, challenges and limitations of interdisciplinarity in terms of both practical research and methodology. In four lectures and two panel discussions, participants explored specific issues of interdisciplinarity. Taking into account the difficult process of institutionalization of discourse research in the 1990s, it can be determined that a diverse and highly productive research environment has been created that marks a specific style of interdisciplinary thinking. URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs140390
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38. Perspectives on Neoliberalism for Human Service Professionals.
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Gray, Mel, Dean, Mitchell, Agllias, Kylie, Howard, Amanda, and Schubert, Leanne
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NEOLIBERALISM , *HUMAN services personnel , *SOCIAL workers , *HUMAN services , *SOCIAL services - Abstract
This article provides an overview of recent perspectives on neoliberalism, which serve as a foundation for the assessment of neoliberalism's influence on human services practice. Conventionally, neoliberalism has been conceived of as an ideology, but more recent perspectives regard neoliberalism as an art of government, a thought collective, and an uneven but path-dependent process of regulatory development. We argue that these new perspectives have the potential to contribute to our critical capacity and open avenues for the analysis of contemporary transformations of public policy and its delivery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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39. Terraplanismo, Ludwik Fleck e o mito de Prometeu
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Ferrer Pinto Martins, André and Ferrer Pinto Martins, André
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In this work, we aim to analyze the Flat Earth movement using the framework offered by the theory of knowledge of Ludwik Fleck (1896-1961). The Flat Earth movement is a social phenomenon that can be associated with the so-called “post-truth” issue. The belief that the Earth is flat and that the scientific knowledge historically constructed in this regard is wrong is apparently growing in Brazil and in the world. A reflection of this was the realization, at the end of 2019 in São Paulo, of the first Flat Earth National Convention. Based on the speeches given in the various lectures that took place during this event, this qualitative study sought to identify characteristic elements of this group's thinking. Through the analysis of the observation field notes, we identified a previous set of six characteristics of the Flat Earth supporters’ speech, detailed in the body of the work. Then, this material was analyzed based on the theoretical framework offered by Fleck’s epistemology. Specifically, the fleckian concepts of thought style, thought collective, intracollective and intercollective circulation of ideas, esoteric and exoteric circles, active and passive coupling, harmony of illusions and protoideas proved to be useful in the characterization and interpretation of the Flat Earth movement. At the end, we make some reflections that, in our view, should be the object of attention in the area of science/physics teaching in regard to this theme, in particular, the need to be aware of this social phenomenon, problematizing it. We argue that a critical teaching of science and the respect for points of view different from those scientifically accepted should not imply a devaluation of scientific thinking., Objetivamos, nesse trabalho, analisar o movimento terraplanista com a utilização do referencial oferecido pela teoria do conhecimento de Ludwik Fleck (1896-1961). O terraplanismo é um fenômeno social que pode ser associado à problemática da chamada “pós-verdade”. A crença de que a Terra é plana e de que o conhecimento científico construído historicamente a esse respeito está errado vem, aparentemente, crescendo no Brasil e no mundo. Um reflexo disso foi a realização, no final de 2019 em São Paulo, da primeira Convenção Nacional da Terra Plana. Tomando como base os discursos proferidos nas diversas palestras ocorridas durante esse evento, esse trabalho, de cunho qualitativo, buscou identificar elementos característicos do pensamento desse grupo. Por meio da análise das notas de campo de observação, identificou-se um conjunto prévio de seis características do discurso terraplanista, detalhadas no corpo do trabalho. Em seguida, procedeu-se à análise desse material a partir do referencial oferecido pela epistemologia de Fleck. Especificamente, os conceitos fleckianos de estilo de pensamento, coletivo de pensamento, circulação intracoletiva e intercoletiva de ideias, círculos esotérico e exotérico, acoplamentos ativo e passivo, harmonia das ilusões e protoideias mostraram-se úteis na caracterização e interpretação do movimento terraplanista. Ao final, tecemos algumas reflexões que, a nosso ver, deveriam ser objeto de atenção da área de ensino de ciências/física no que diz respeito a essa temática, em particular, a necessidade de estarmos atentos a esse fenômeno social, problematizando-o. Defendemos que um ensino crítico da ciência e o respeito a pontos de vista diversos aos cientificamente aceitos não deve implicar em uma desvalorização do pensamento científico.
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40. The socio-logic of knowledge-in-formation between discovery and error: some considerations from 'normal science' under exceptional conditions.
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Kistner, Ulrike
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REASONING ,SCIENTIFIC method ,CRITICAL thinking ,INTELLECT ,THEORY of knowledge ,EPISTEMIC logic - Abstract
A sociology of knowledge of a specific kind, namely that emerging from observations on the work of scientific thought collectives, is what Thomas Kuhn acknowledges as Ludwik Fleck's (Denkstile und Tatsachen. Gesammelte Schriften und Zeugnisse, Suhrkamp, Berlin, ) influence on his own Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962). Yet the relationship between thought and collective that turns out to be one of the central problematics in Fleck's thought, remains troubling to Kuhn. The reservations expressed by Kuhn go to the core of Fleck's conceptualization of the structures, roles, scientific achievements, illusions, and errors of thought collectives, as well as to the sociology of knowledge with which he is credited, but which remains a theoretical blindspot. I would here like to take a closer look at this problematic, with a view to specifying the nature and the dynamic of a 'sociology of knowledge' that a leading thought would engender in a scientific collective, in its refractions between internal and external conditions of knowledge formation, operationalized under conditions of scientific work in Nazi concentration camps, as they were retrospectively recounted by Fleck (Cognition and fact: material on Ludwik Fleck, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, ). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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41. Exploring the long-term effect of strategy work:The case of Sustainable Sydney 2030
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Markus A. Höllerer, Martin Kornberger, and Renate E. Meyer
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thought collective ,effect ,Corporate governance ,05 social sciences ,Environmental Science (miscellaneous) ,0506 political science ,Sustainable Sydney 2030 ,institution ,Urban Studies ,Work (electrical) ,0502 economics and business ,050602 political science & public administration ,urban strategy ,Term effect ,Business ,Urban management ,Environmental planning ,effect, institution, Sustainable Sydney 2030, thought collective, thought style, urban strategy ,050203 business & management ,thought style - Abstract
Strategy has become an important concern and practical tool in urban management and governance, with the literature highlighting implementation as a hallmark of effective strategy. Whilst such a strategy–action link (which we label here as ‘implementation nexus’) has been well established, other long-term effects have been documented in less detail. Our study of Sustainable Sydney 2030 finds that strategy was effective to the extent to which it changed the institutional a priori of what a collective of actors engaged in city-making knows, what it can articulate and how its members relate to each other. We capture this effect as ‘institution nexus’ and theorise our findings with Ludwik Fleck’s concept of ‘thought style’ of a focal ‘thought collective’– notions that also centrally influenced Mary Douglas’ work on ‘how institutions think’. We contribute to extant research by adding the institution nexus as a long-term effect of urban strategy as well as by advancing strategy theory in urban studies to foreground its ability to shape institutions.
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42. How Cities Think
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Renate E. Meyer, and Markus A. Höllerer, and Martin Kornberger
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media_common.quotation_subject ,Strategy ,Socio-cognitive infrastructure ,Thought style ,Organization studies ,Argument ,Perception ,506009 Organisationstheorie ,Meaning (existential) ,Sociology ,502052 Business administration ,Institutional theory ,Thought collective ,media_common ,506009 Organisation theory ,502024 Public economy ,Cognition ,Micro–macro debate ,502024 Öffentliche Wirtschaft ,Epistemology ,502052 Betriebswirtschaftslehre ,502006 Controlling ,Ludwik Fleck - Abstract
In this chapter, the authors introduce Ludwik Fleck and his ideas of “thought style” and “thought collective” to suggest a re-thinking of the divide between “micro” and “macro” that has perhaps more inhibited than inspired organization studies in general, and institutional theory in particular. With Fleck, the authors argue that there is no such thing as thought style-neutral cognition or undirected perception: meaning, constituted through a specific thought style shared by a thought collective, permeates cognition, judgment, perception, and thought. The authors illustrate our argument with the longitudinal case study of Sydney 2030 (i.e., the strategy-making process of the City of Sydney, Australia). Our case suggests that – regardless of its actual implementation – a strategy is successful to the extent to which it shapes the socio-cognitive infrastructure of a collective and enables those engaged in city-making to think and act collectively.
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43. Rethinking neoliberalism.
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Dean, Mitchell
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NEOLIBERALISM , *STATE, The , *POLITICAL systems , *POLITICAL science , *ECONOMIC policy , *POLICY sciences , *GLOBAL Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 , *CRISIS management - Abstract
There are many key questions concerning the current status of the notion of neoliberalism. What is it? Is it an appropriate concept to describe a political and intellectual movement or form of state? What are its prospects as a framework of public policy after the global financial crisis? The article proposes a way of answering these questions by regarding neoliberalism as a definite ‘thought collective’ and a regime of government of and by the state. It exemplifies these by shifts within neoliberalism regarding the question of monopoly, its relationship to classical liberalism and its approach to crisis management. In regard to the latter, it further proposes an emergent rationality of the government of and by the state concerning the fostering of resilience in the anticipation of catastrophe. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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44. Was denkt im Individuum?
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Johach, Eva
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45. Constructing Viking Link:How the Infopower of Cost-benefit Analysis as a Calculative Device Reinforces the Energopower of Transmission Infrastructure
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Hasberg, Kirsten
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thought collective ,natural monopoly ,transition énergétique ,interconnector ,infopower ,cost-benefit analysis ,transmission ,calculative device ,regulatory capture ,Vikink Link ,infrastructure ,state-owned multinationals ,transmission d’énergie électrique ,lcsh:Social Sciences ,lcsh:H ,Viking Link ,energopower ,energy transition ,calculative devices ,analyse coût-bénéfice ,electric power transmission ,performativité de l’économie ,performativity of economics ,instrument de calcul - Abstract
The phronetic approach of the Sustainable Energy Planning research group at the Department of Planning at Aalborg University means that it actively participates in public debates over energy futures. In the recent case of Viking Link, a planned Danish-British interconnector, the group has proposed a significantly alternative valuation compared to that of the Danish Transmission System Operator Energinet and the Danish authorities. While the latter claim that Viking Link is imperative to green transition (termed Supergrid thought style), the former argue that there are better flexibility options available (termed Smart Energy System thought style). Through an empirical assessment of the cost-benefit analysis and of a parliamentary hearing regarding Viking Link, this paper sheds light on the power struggles inherent to these fact- making processes. It shows how energopower, that is, the political power inherent to energy infrastructures, operates through calculative devices and thought collectives, resulting in the different valuations of Viking Link. The cost-benefit examination reveals how calculations exert infopower, that is, the power exercised through the work of data formatting. Thereby, the calculative device limits the potential valuations of Viking Link and hence restricts decision-making. The Supergrid thought collective in turn is subject to a 'harmony of delusions', resulting in enduring resistance to anything that contradicts its thought style. In times of energy transition, energopower is stabilized by the intertwined fact-making of calculative devices and thought collectives: Alternative scenarios of wind power integration through sectoral coupling are disregarded by the calculative device and made invisible by the Supergrid thought collective, although the Smart Energy System thought style is also represented at Energinet. Thus, the dominant thought collective and the cost-benefit analysis reinforce each other. Very literally, this interplay creates its own reality: Viking Link has entered the construction phase. Thought collectives and calculative devices act to fasten the energopower through regulatory capture, in turn enabling Energinet to shift its role from a national natural monopoly to a state-owned multinational. This calls for regulatory reforms of both revenue cap regulation and grid tariff principles of the transmission system operator. This paper sheds light on the performativity of economics in the decision-making process behind Viking Link, a Danish-British interconnector under construction. It shows how energopower, that is, the political power inherent to energy infrastructures, is reinforced through the workings of cost-benefit analysis as prescribed by the Danish Ministry of Finance. In doing so, the paper offers a novel approach to the performativity of calculative devices, highlighting the role of infopower, a Foucauldian neologism denoting the power inherent to information structures. Calculative devices are understood as information infrastructures that exert power through the work of data formatting. The cost-benefit analysis, as such a calculative device, limits the potential valuations of Viking Link and hence restricts decision-making. This has impactful consequences, as the infopower of mainstream economic thinking makes it possible to disregard relevant aspects of Viking Link, like alternative ways of integrating fluctuating renewable energy, as well as the incidence of risk of the interconnector project.
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46. How archaeological communities think
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Monika Milosavljević
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History ,language ,Thought collective ,Serbian ,Classics ,language.human_language - Published
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47. En estado de competir
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Wulff , Enrique and Instituto de Ciencias Marinas de Andalucía (CSIC)
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pro-calcitonin ,thought collective ,MESH: Calcitonin/history ,anatomy ,Madrid ,endocrinologie ,calcitonine ,thyrocalcitonine ,conceptual shoehorning ,[SDV.MHEP.EM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Endocrinology and metabolism ,Instituto Gregorio Marañón ,anatomie ,thyroid ,thyroïde ,[SHS.HISPHILSO]Humanities and Social Sciences/History, Philosophy and Sociology of Sciences ,endocrinology ,thyrocalcitonin ,calcitonin ,pensée collective ,[SDV.BBM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology ,MESH: Protein Precursors/history ,pro-calcitonine ,Jose Fernández Nonídez ,agencement conceptuel - Abstract
International audience; Until the 1950s, the first results in the studies of calcitonin-thyrocalcitonin were ignored in the accepted research scheme. However, it was José Fernández Nonídez from the Spanish School of Histology, died in Augusta (Georgia, USA) in 1947, whose expertise in the parafollicular cells of the mammalian thyroid had led him to an advanced understanding of this separate endocrine organ, which secretes calcitonin. The antecedent of the secretion was present in the cytoplasm of these cells, which Nonídez explained in a paper published in 1932.In 1973, a Spanish group from the Instituto Gregorio Marañón (Madrid) leading the research into the ectopic production of calcitonin identified the precursor responsible for its biosynthesis. Nonetheless, given the informal power in connection with the communication between the scientists, this significative contribution was absolutely discarded in terms of acknowledgment within their social circle. The services responsible for dissemination of scientific knowledge considered that priority should be given to another group of young scientists dedicated to pro-calcitonin evidence.The nature and extent of informal communication are highlighted in countries with different measures to guarantee the autonomy and independence of their state powers. Irrespectively of political circumstances, the paper is focused on the competition between two different approaches in science particularly important for progress in medicine: the perspective presented by experimental studies in basic sciences (in animals) and the models developed in clinical sciences.; Jusqu'aux années 1950, les premiers résultats des études portant sur la calcitonine-thyrocalcitonine n'ont pas été pris en considération dans les programmes de recherche acceptés. Cependant, il revient à José Fernández Nonídez de l'École histologique espagnole, mort à Augusta (Georgia, USA) en 1947, l'expertise dans les cellules parafolliculaires de la thyroïde des mammifères qui l'ont conduit à una compréhension poussée de cet organ endocrinien distinct, qui secrète la calcitonine. L'antécédent de la sécrétion était présent dans le cytoplasme de ces cellules, ce qui a été expliqué par Nonídez dans un article publié en 1932.En 1973, un groupe espagnol faisant partie de l'"Instituto Gregorio Marañón (Madrid)" chargé de la recherche sur la production ectopique de calcitonine a détecté le précurseur responsable de sa biosynthèse. Néanmoins, étant donné le pouvoir discrétionnaire en raison de la communication entre scientifiques, cette contribution significative a été complétement écartée en termes de réconnaissances dans leur cercle social. Les services chargés de la dissémination de la connaissance scientifique ont considéré que la priorité dévrait être accordée à un autre groupe de jeunes scientifiques dédié aux preuves de la procalcitonine. La nature et l'étendue de la communication informelle est mise en lumière dans des pays avec des différentes mesures pour garantir l'autonomie et indépendance des pouvoirs de l'État. Indépendamment des circonstances politiques, l'article se concentre sur la compétition entre deux approches distinctes en science, particulièrement importants au progrès de la médecine: la perspective présentée par les études expérimentales en sciences fondamentales (chez les animaux), et les modèles développés en recherche clinique.
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48. 'Skaldernas sång är folkets röst!' : En studie av Fosterländska Förbundet i Norrköping som borgerligt tankekollektiv 1887–1907
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Bergsén, Sakarias and Bergsén, Sakarias
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In this thesis I research a senior high school association called The Patriotic Society, and the records that they produced between 1887–1907. The title, which roughly translates to “The song of the bards is the voice of the people!”, is a quote from a poem, published in the paper of the association. I seek to determine what their “thought style” – as defined by Ludwik Fleck – consists of through these records, and also how the inherent characteristics corresponded to two contemporary, educational ideals described by Hans Wennås: the classic-humanistic represented by the conservative aristocracy, and the utilitarian which the bourgeoisie sympathized with. There has earlier been research done about bourgeois and aristocratic ideas, and their settings in the swedish senior high schools – although there has not been any research done about this specific association. Moreover, to fulfill my specific purpose, I raise two questions in the beginning of the thesis: what was the characteristic features of The Patriotic Societies’ thought style, and how did they relate to Wennås educational ideals? By analyzing the associations paper Saga, protocols from their meetings and lectures that they held, I came to distinguish three primary characteristics in the thought style: a liberal patriotism with a strong idea of nordic community, a literary orientation that emphazised the patriotic and the idealistic, and lastly bourgeoisie ideas mainly consisting of a co-occuring liberal standpoint combined with a pronounced class consciousness. In conclusion, The Patriotic Society corresponded by these means the most to the utilitarian ideal, than the classic-humanist.
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49. The Collective Construction of a Scientific Fact: A Re-examination of the Early Period of the Wassermann Reaction (1906–1912).
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van den Belt, Henk
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SYPHILIS , *TINKERS , *INTELLECTUAL property , *IMMUNOSPECIFICITY , *RESEARCH - Abstract
Ludwik Fleck is widely recognized as a precursor of Science and Technology Studies, but his case study on the development of the Wassermann reaction as a test for detecting syphilis has never been subjected to detailed empirical scrutiny. The fact that Fleck’s monograph is based on a limited set of documentary sources makes his work vulnerable to uncharitable critics. The problematic relation between thought collective and individual scientists in Fleck’s theoretical approach is another reason for a systematic re-examination of his case study, using materials on the early period in the history of the Wassermann reaction (1906–1912). My re-examination highlights several problems in Fleck’s account: a misinterpretation of the switch from antigen detection to antibody detection; a neglect of the “clinical connection”; an overemphasis on the importance of collective experience leading to implausible views on gross retrospective distortions supposedly inflicted by this experience upon the memories of individual participants; and, finally, a misjudgement of the significance of the acrimonious dispute over the intellectual ownership of the Wassermann reaction. What remains unscathed is Fleck’s picture of a zig-zag course of development from false initial assumptions via detours and cul-de-sacs to a clinically usable test in the end. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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50. Notes.
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Morrow, Mary Sue
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