%0 Journal Article
%T LA CONSTRUCCI¨®N SOCIAL DE LOS INDIVIDUOS
%A Lorenzano
%A C¨¦sar
%J Discusiones Filos¨®ficas
%D 2008
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X ludwik fleck, the polish philosopher and scientist that influenced so much thomas kuhn£¿ conception with his notions of "thought style" and " thought collective ", states in his main work, the genesis and the development of a scientific fact, the position that thinking is centrally a product of a collective mind. we will present in this article his epistemological conceptions, and his vital circumstance, as an introduction to the notion of collective mind. later on, the existence of a collective mind is objected -assuming it is unnecessary to fleck£¿s purposes-; we propose that only the individuals possess the epistemic structures characteristic of the thought styles -the so call "mind"- and therefore, that they are the only ones that uses them to build new knowledge -to "think"-, in the interior of different thought collectives, and in interaction with their members. these individuals, in spite of their adscription to those communities, are, for this very same reason, unique.
%K fleck
%K kuhn
%K thought style
%K thought collective
%K individuals.
%U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0124-61272008000100005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en