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Following on Boegenhold's reference to Fleck, apart from Kuhn's
general introduction to the English edition of Fleck's book, the best
current discussion and assessment of Fleck's book in English appears
in Barbara Herrnsteins Smith's "Netting Truth" in the Publications of
the Modern Language Association (PMLA), Vol. 115, No. 5. (Oct.,
2000), pp. 1089-1095. (A more complete version of that paper will
appear as Chapter 3 in the book Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth,
and the Human, to be published later this year by the University of
Edinburgh Press, and in North America by Duke University Press for
the series Science and Cultural Theory, which I co-edit.)
Briefly per this thread, Fleck's views on scientific practice invoked
and involved "thought styles" ("Denkstilen") and "thought
collectives" ("Denkkollectiven").
E. Roy Weintraub
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