Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact

Ludwik Fleck, Thaddeus J. Trenn, Frederick Bradley , Robert K. Merton

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German

Chicago University Press
15 August 1981

Philosophy; Philosophy of science; History of science

"Originally published in German in 1935, this monograph anticipated solutions to problems of scientific progress, the truth of scientific fact and the role of error in science now associated with the work of Thomas Kuhn and others. Arguing that every scientific concept and theory—including his own—is culturally conditioned, Fleck was appreciably ahead of his time. And as Kuhn observes in his foreword, ""Though much has occurred since its publication, it remains a brilliant and largely unexploited resource.""

""To many scientists just as to many historians and philosophers of science facts are things that simply are the case: they are discovered through properly passive observation of natural reality. To such views Fleck replies that facts are invented, not discovered. Moreover, the appearance of scientific facts as discovered things is itself a social construction, a made thing. A work of transparent brilliance, one of the most significant contributions toward a thoroughly sociological account of scientific knowledge.""—Steven Shapin, Science"

By: Ludwik Fleck
Foreword by: Thomas S. Kuhn
Edited by: Thaddeus J. Trenn, Robert K. Merton
Translated by: Frederick Bradley
Imprint: Chicago University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 22mm, Width: 14mm, Spine: 1mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9780226253251
ISBN 10: 0226253252
Pages: 222
Publication Date: 15 August 1981
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Thomas S. Kuhn (1922-96) was the Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His books include The Essential Tension; Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912; and The Copernican Revolution.