{"product_id":"genesis-and-development-of-a-scientific-fact-9780226253251","title":"Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally 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 theoryincluding his ownis 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45789636821045,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226253252","price":25.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226253251.jpg?v=1784694045","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/genesis-and-development-of-a-scientific-fact-9780226253251","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}