Communication and incommensurability in scientific knowledge development as understand Ludwik Fleck

• Grant number: 10/13699-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2011
• End date: March 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - Epistemology
• Principal Investigator: Caetano Ernesto Plastino
• Grantee: João Alex Costa Carneiro
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims to understand how Ludwik Fleck describes scientific knowledge developement from his conception of an "comparative epistemology" historically and socially anchored. From this point of view, we would like to focalize on the possibility of an efective communication between scientific exoteric and esoteric circles. As conclusion we will also circumscribe the incommensurability problem and also the impossibility of any comparability between distinct scientific "thinking styles" following from Flecks perspective.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

CARNEIRO, João Alex Costa. Ludwick Flecks comparative epistemology: communication and incommensurability in the development of scientific ideas. 2012. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.