The Concepts of Ludwik Fleck and Their Application to the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle
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Ethics in Progress (ISSN 2084-9257). Vol. 11 (2020). No. 1, Art. #1, pp. 4-19. DOI:10.14746/eip.2020.1.1 Typhus in Buchenwald: Can the Story Be Told? Ilana Löwy (CERMES; Paris; [email protected]) ORCID: 0000-0001-6963-0578 Fleck in Buchenwald In a 1948 Ludwik Fleck published an article “On experiments on human beings” which discussed the regulation of such experiments (Fleck 1948, 1052-1054). He pu- blished this text shortly after testifying at the Nuremberg trial about experiments which involved deliberate infection of healthy people with typhus (Flecks’ testimony at the knowledge of German war research on this disease. He spent the last part of World War I.G. Farben trial in Nuremberg, February 12, 1948/2007). Fleck himself has a first-hand II in Block 50 in the Buchenwald camp, where he and other prisoners produced a typhus vaccine for the German army. Block 50 was in the immediate vicinity of the infamous block 46, where Nazi doctors – the same who were responsible for the vaccine produc- tion – conducted experiments on human beings. “Experiments” may be an inaccurate word. Buchenwald was a criminal endeavor of a criminal state in an insane world whe- re no normal rules applied. The so-called “medical experiments” conducted in Block 46 had very distant relation to medical research, and very strong links with mass murder. On the other hand, the insane world of the concentration camp contained ele- ments which linked it to a more “conventional” science. Nazi doctors who conduc- ted barbarous experiments on prisoners aspired to a conventional professional ca- employed absolutely unacceptable means (read, assassination), but might have still reer. -
Conventions, Styles of Thinking and Relativism
S t udia Philosophica Wratislaviensia Supplementary Volume, English Edition 2012 KRZYSZTOF SZLACHCIC University of Wrocław Conventions, Styles of Thinking and Relativism. Some Remarks on the Dispute between I. Dąmbska and L. Fleck* Abstract My comments are focused on the debate between Izydora Dąmbska and Ludwik Fleck. In the course of their debate, which took place in the 1930’s, they discussed some basic issues of epistemology, focusing on the problems of the sources of scientific knowledge, objectivity of knowledge, and truth. The aim of the paper is to place their debate in a the historical context and to demonstrate the novelty of Fleck’s arguments, especially in comparison with Thomas S. Kuhn’s later contribution. I also examine the dominant interpretations of Fleck’s theory of knowledge, as well as the reasons for which his philosophical ideas, especially Entstehung und Entwicklung einer wissenschaftlichen Tatsache (1935) have fallen into the philosophical obliv- ion. I argue that Fleck’s views, although innovative, were less radical than it is commonly thought. My comments focus on the polemic that ensued in the 1930s between Izydora Dąmbska and Ludwik Fleck. The authors involved in it either directly or indirectly referred to the fundamental questions of the theory of cognition: the question of the sources of scientific knowledge, objectivity of knowledge (its communicabil- ity), relative nature of scientific knowledge, truth. The small total volume of texts which directly referred to the views of the adversaries as well as the place where the dispute occurred (Lvov, a geographically peripheral part of the “civilised world” at the time) could suggest that this was just a minor episode in the history of thought, not worth mentioning. -
Former Fellows Biographical Index Part
Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002 Biographical Index Part Two ISBN 0 902198 84 X Published July 2006 © The Royal Society of Edinburgh 22-26 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2PQ BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF FORMER FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 1783 – 2002 PART II K-Z C D Waterston and A Macmillan Shearer This is a print-out of the biographical index of over 4000 former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh as held on the Society’s computer system in October 2005. It lists former Fellows from the foundation of the Society in 1783 to October 2002. Most are deceased Fellows up to and including the list given in the RSE Directory 2003 (Session 2002-3) but some former Fellows who left the Society by resignation or were removed from the roll are still living. HISTORY OF THE PROJECT Information on the Fellowship has been kept by the Society in many ways – unpublished sources include Council and Committee Minutes, Card Indices, and correspondence; published sources such as Transactions, Proceedings, Year Books, Billets, Candidates Lists, etc. All have been examined by the compilers, who have found the Minutes, particularly Committee Minutes, to be of variable quality, and it is to be regretted that the Society’s holdings of published billets and candidates lists are incomplete. The late Professor Neil Campbell prepared from these sources a loose-leaf list of some 1500 Ordinary Fellows elected during the Society’s first hundred years. He listed name and forenames, title where applicable and national honours, profession or discipline, position held, some information on membership of the other societies, dates of birth, election to the Society and death or resignation from the Society and reference to a printed biography. -
The Ideas of Ludwik Fleck and Their Application to the Eukaryotic Cell
The Ideas of Ludwik Fleck and Their Application to the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle, the Restriction Point, and G1-phase Control Stephen Cooper Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School Ann Arbor Michigan 48109-0620 e-mail: [email protected] Abstract The ideas of Ludwik Fleck (1896-1961) analyzing the conservative nature of scientific ideas are discussed and applied to the proposed G1-phase restriction point as a regulatory element of the mammalian cell cycle. Fleck proposed that ideas become fixed and difficult to change because criticisms of current and dominant models are either ignored or turned to support of the current model. The idea of a thought-collective leading to the stability of ideas is a central theme of the ideas of Ludwik Fleck. 1 Evidence conforms to conceptions just as often as conceptions conform to evidence. Ludwik Fleck, 1935 Introduction The continuum model of eukaryotic cell-cycle control is now almost 25 years old (1,2). This alternative view was actually generated a number of years earlier based on studies of the bacterial cell cycle (3). Since its first proposal, the continuum model has not made much headway against what may be called the G1-phase control model of the cell cycle, a model that is current, dominant, and accepted by a broad consensus of researchers in the field of eukaryotic cell-cycle studies. It is important to understand how the G1-phase control model has remained so dominant despite the success of the alternative continuum model view of the cell cycle in explaining myriad published experimental results on the cell cycle. -
Two Sociologies of Knowledge. L. Fleck—T
Stefan Symotiuk (Lublin) TWO SOCIOLOGIES OF KNOWLEDGE. L. FLECK — T. BILIKIEWICZ CONTROVERSY Tadeusz Bilikiewicz, a scholar now somewhat forgotten, was in the 1930s active as an sociologist of knowledge. In 1931 he published a book entitled Jan Jonston, 1603—1677, Żywot i działalność lekarska (His Life and Medical Activity), Warsaw 1931, and a year later Die Embryologie im Zeitalter des Barock und des Rococo, Leipzig 1932. He was also author of many articles, still to be properly investigated. His theory of knowledge he himself called 'perspectivism'. In the Summer issue of the journal 'Przegląd Współczesny' of 1939, an argument was published between Fleck and Bilikiewicz which was overlooked by those concerned because of the outbreak of war, and which has not been taken note of by the bibliographies of Fleck's work. Yet this is an extremely interesting polemic, considering that Bilikie- wicz was an exponent of 'the naive epistemology' seeing the relation between subject and object as being of a 'reflective' nature and accepting only the 'heuristic' influence of environment upon science. He flatly rejected Fleck's conceptions describing it as subjective idealism, agno- sticism, relativism. My intention here is to recall briefly that polemic. I. THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE DISPUTE L. Fleck began to be interested in epistemology soon after his stay in Vienna when he published his Zur Krise der 'Wirklichkeit'i. Still he main phase of his work was in 1935 when his book appeared together 1 'Die Naturwissenschaften' Vol. 17:1929, 23, p. 425—430. 570 S. Symotiuk with a series of articles in Polish and foreign journals. -
Sheila Watson Fonds Finding Guide
SHEILA WATSON FONDS FINDING GUIDE SPECIAL COLLECTIONS JOHN M. KELLY LIBRARY | UNIVERSITY OF ST. MICHAEL’S COLLEGE 113 ST. JOSEPH STREET TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA M5S 1J4 ARRANGED AND DESCRIBED BY ANNA ST.ONGE CONTRACT ARCHIVIST JUNE 2007 (LAST UPDATED SEPTEMBER 2012) TABLE OF CONTENTS TAB Part I : Fonds – level description…………………………………………………………A Biographical Sketch HiStory of the Sheila WatSon fondS Extent of fondS DeScription of PaperS AcceSS, copyright and publiShing reStrictionS Note on Arrangement of materialS Related materialS from other fondS and Special collectionS Part II : Series – level descriptions………………………………………………………..B SerieS 1.0. DiarieS, reading journalS and day plannerS………………………………………...1 FileS 2006 01 01 – 2006 01 29 SerieS 2.0 ManuScriptS and draftS……………………………………………………………2 Sub-SerieS 2.1. NovelS Sub-SerieS 2.2. Short StorieS Sub-SerieS 2.3. Poetry Sub-SerieS 2.4. Non-fiction SerieS 3.0 General correSpondence…………………………………………………………..3 Sub-SerieS 3.1. Outgoing correSpondence Sub-SerieS 3.2. Incoming correSpondence SerieS 4.0 PubliShing records and buSineSS correSpondence………………………………….4 SerieS 5.0 ProfeSSional activitieS materialS……………………………………………………5 Sub-SerieS 5.1. Editorial, collaborative and contributive materialS Sub-SerieS 5.2. Canada Council paperS Sub-SerieS 5.3. Public readingS, interviewS and conference material SerieS 6.0 Student material…………………………………………………………………...6 SerieS 7.0 Teaching material………………………………………………………………….7 Sub-SerieS 7.1. Elementary and secondary school teaching material Sub-SerieS 7.2. UniverSity of BritiSh Columbia teaching material Sub-SerieS 7.3. UniverSity of Toronto teaching material Sub-SerieS 7.4. UniverSity of Alberta teaching material Sub-SerieS 7.5. PoSt-retirement teaching material SerieS 8.0 Research and reference materialS…………………………………………………..8 Sub-serieS 8.1. -
Ludwik Fleck And His 'Thought Collectives'
Ludwik Fleck and His 'Thought Collectives' 11–14 April 2019 Program Venue: Center for Urban History of East Central Europe The workshop Ludwik Fleck and His 'Thought Collectives' aims at bringing together a person and the city/places/spaces, Ludwik Fleck (1896-1961) and Lviv where he was born, studied, worked, debated, contemplated, and wrote his philosophical and medical texts. It is focusing on the philosophic legacy of Fleck and on the historical context that generated his ideas. Workshop participants explore in details the social landscape of the interwar Lviv where different ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups co-existed and co-created; where various art communities and scientific collectives worked together. They trace changes and adaptations of his legacy in various disciplines and geographies. This scientific meeting will actualize the legacy of Ludwik Fleck, and open opportunities for its further application in the academic and extra-academic contexts. Organization: Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Center for Urban History of East Central Europe Ukrainian Catholic University Support: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Collegium Helveticum / Ludwik-Fleck-Zentrum, Zürich Support of public program: The Institute for Human Sciences (IWM, Vienna) Lviv City Council Thursday, From 17:00 Arrival to the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe 1 April 11, 2019 Registration & Welcoming round From 19:00 Reception Friday, 9:00-9:30 Opening ceremony April 12, 2019 9:30-11:30 Panel 1. Cultural and Intellectual Milieus -
LD5655.V855 1993.C655.Pdf (11.60Mb)
SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE, SOCIOLOGICALT HEORY, AND THE STRUCTURE OF RHETORIC by James H. Collier Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE in Science and Technology Studies APPROVED: Y— Joseph C. Pitt, Chair Aone ble EtaaT hone, Steve Fuller Elisworth Fuhrman April, 1993 Blacksburg, VA LD S635 VE5S , DaQa cose} aM’~ Scientific Discourse, Sociological Theory, and the Structure of Rhetoric James H. Collier Graduate Program in Science and Technology Studies Chair: Joseph C. Pitt (ABSTRACT) This thesis examines the rhetorical, analytical and critical efficacy of reflexivity and sociological theory as means for reconciling the normative and descriptive functions of the rhetoric of science. In attempting to define a separate research domain within Science Studies, rhetoric of science has borrowed Strong Program and constructivist principles and descriptions of scientific practice from the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (SSK) as a basis for analyzing scientific discourse. While epistemological claims in the social sciences have been considered inherently self-referential and subject to reflexive analysis and critique, rhetoricians have generally taken these claims on face value and applied them to a treatment of scientific practice. Accordingly, rhetoricians have maintained a natural ontological attitude to sociological theories and descriptions supporting an understanding of scientific discourse as implicitly rhetorical. Recently, however, the concept of "rhetoric" in rhetoric of science has come under scrutiny. This thesis will connect arguments involving the relation of the "irreducibly social" nature of science, to a concept of scientific discourse as rhetorical "without remainder,” to the philosophical commitments of reflexive analysis. -
Re-Thinking Ludwik Fleck's Concept of The
1 How archaeological communities think: re-thinking Ludwik Fleck’s concept of the thought-collective according to the case of Serbian archaeology Monika Milosavljevi´c Both thinking and facts are changeable, if only because changes in think- ing manifest themselves in changed facts. Conversely, fundamentally new facts can be discovered only through new thinking. (Fleck, 1981: 50–51; translated by Fred Bradley and Thaddeus J. Trenn). Introduction Serbian archaeology offers fertile ground in which to apply Fleck’s con- cepts of thought-collectives and thought-style.1 To this end, this chapter seeks to delve into Fleck’s theories on knowledge production to study how they function in practice in the history of archaeology, as based on empirical data consisting of various texts and citation relations that are used to track a particular thought-collective in a clearer, more visual manner. In doing this, a further aim of this chapter is to introduce new theoretical tools for the history of ideas as well as how they may be implemented as inherent to specific methodological strategies. Kuhn’s concept of a paradigm is limited in its applications since its broad expanse proves too unwieldy to apply to all aspects of a localised phenomenon. Paradigm shift is an appropriate term to describe significant changes that encompass totalities, but not for analysing the specifics of one non-generalised change (Kuhn, 1970). As a matter of consequence, in order to take an initial step into researching the history of localised ideas (such as the history of archaeology), it is necessary to find an approach adequate to understanding the sociology of knowl- edge production and archaeological epistemology. -
Biologie Moléculaire De LA CELLULE Biologie Moléculaire De Sixième Édition
Sixième édition BRUCE ALEXANDER JULIAN DAVID MARTIN KEITH PETER ALBERTS JOHNSON LEWIS MORGAN RAFF ROBERTS WALTER Biologie moléculaire de LA CELLULE Biologie moléculaire de Sixième édition LA CELLULESixième édition Biologie moléculaire de moléculaire Biologie LA CELLULE LA BRUCE ALBERTS BRUCE ALBERTS ALEXANDER JOHNSON ALEXANDER JOHNSON JULIAN LEWIS JULIAN LEWIS DAVID MORGAN DAVID MORGAN MARTIN RAFF MARTIN RAFF KEITH ROBERTS KEITH ROBERTS PETER WALTER PETER WALTER -:HSMCPH=WU[\]\: editions.lavoisier.fr 978-2-257-20678-7 20678-Albers2017.indd 1-3 08/09/2017 11:09 Chez le même éditeur Culture de cellules animales, 3e édition, par G. Barlovatz-Meimon et X. Ronot Biochimie, 7e édition, par J. M. Berg, J. L. Tymoczko, L. Stryer L’essentiel de la biologie cellulaire, 3e édition, par B. Alberts, D. Bray, K. Hopkin, A. Johnson, A. J. Lewis, M. Ra", K. Roberts et P. Walter Immunologie, par L. Chatenoud et J.-F. Bach Génétique moléculaire humaine, 4e édition, par T. Strachan et A. Read Manuel de poche de biologie cellulaire, par H. Plattner et J. Hentschel Manuel de poche de microbiologie médicale, par F. H. Kayser, E. C. Böttger, P. Deplazes, O. Haller, A. Roers Atlas de poche de génétique, par E. Passarge Atlas de poche de biotechnologie et de génie génétique, par R.D. Schmid Les biosimilaires, par J.-L. Prugnaud et J.-H. Trouvin Bio-informatique moléculaire : une approche algorithmique (Coll. IRIS), par P. A. Pevzner et N. Puech Cycle cellulaire et cytométrie en "ux, par D. Grunwald, J.-F. Mayol et X. Ronot La cytométrie en "ux, par X. Ronot, D. -
John Maynard Smith Archive (1948-2004) (Add MS 86569-86840) Table of Contents
British Library: Western Manuscripts John Maynard Smith Archive (1948-2004) (Add MS 86569-86840) Table of Contents John Maynard Smith Archive (1948–2004) Key Details........................................................................................................................................ 1 Arrangement..................................................................................................................................... 2 Provenance........................................................................................................................................ 2 Add MS 86569–86574 Reprints and copies of articles and book chapters by John Maynard Smith (1952–2003)...................................................................................................................................... 3 Add MS 86575–86596 Correspondence files, F–Z (1975–1991).............................................................. 5 Add MS 86597–86830 Subject files (1948–2003).................................................................................. 18 Add MS 86831–86835 Notebooks and plant lists (1973–2003)............................................................... 223 Add MS 86836–86837 Lecture notes ([c 1990–c 1999])........................................................................ 226 Add MS 86838–86839 Artefacts and books (1983–2001)....................................................................... 227 Add MS 86840 Annotations and manuscripts with offprints received by John Maynard Smith (1952?–2003)................................................................................................................................... -
Introduction
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science, 1 (2016) 3 1-45 ISSN 2526 -2270 www.historiographyofscience.org © The Author 2016 — This is an open access article Dossier Ludwik Flec k Tadeusz Bilikiewicz’s Background in the debate with Ludwik Fleck Artur Koterski 1 Abstract: One of the factors that adversely influenced the worldwide reception of Fleck was the rather narrow critical interest that his ideas had aroused in Poland. Apart from a few reviews of his book (1935), only two polemics were published before WWII, and these likewise fell into oblivion. The philosophical views of one of those polemists, Tadeusz Bilikiewicz, shared the same fate. Since an acquaintance with Bilikiewicz’s background 31 would seem to be a necessary condition for a (full) understanding of his controversy with Fleck, the aim of this paper is to sketch his views on the history and sociology of science, and to clarify certain errors regarding the facts of his life. Keywords: Tadeusz Bilikiewicz; history of medicine; sociology of science; realism; constructivism Received: 30 August 2016. Accepted: 30 October 2016. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Introduction Bilikiewicz is mainly remembered by his psychiatry students, and a fairly narrow group of medical historians and philosophers — predominantly Fleck scholars — for a dispute with Ludwik Fleck, which began in 1939, following Fleck’s critical remarks on Bilikiewicz’s approach to history. As his polemics with Fleck attracted attention, his contribution has been invariably used as a pretext to scrutinize and explain Fleck’s views. Accordingly, Bilikiewicz’s position, as formulated in his book on the history of embryology (1932), and his numerous papers from the 1930s, have been ignored and remain virtually unknown.