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Friday, September 21st 2007
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Staffan Mueller-Wille, The ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (EGENIS), Univ. of Exeter. Cosponsored by the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
Subject: Fleck and Kuhn on Scientific Change
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Ludvik Fleck is often quoted as one of the inspirations for Thomas S. Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions. I will argue that there were some fundamental differences between their models of scientific change. While Kuhn was concerned with the production of knowledge within local communities, Fleck focussed on the translation of knowledge among such communities.
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