Ludwik Fleck
Ludwik Fleck · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Physician and philosopher of science, theory of 'thought collectives'
1896, Lwów, Austria-Hungary (now Lviv, Ukraine) — 1961, Ness Ziona, Israel
Poland (Lwów) · Israel
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Ludwik Fleck was a Polish physician, microbiologist and philosopher of science who developed the theory of 'thought collectives' and 'thought styles', arguing that scientific facts are socially constructed within communities — ideas that anticipated Thomas Kuhn's work on paradigms. A Jew, he survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald, where he was forced to work on typhus research, and later emigrated to Israel, where he worked in medical research.
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Physician and philosopher of science, theory of 'thought collectives'
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