Mauro Condé

UFMG - The Federal University of Minas Gerais, Departamento de História, Faculty Member

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Hey! Welcome! I am Mauro Condé (Twitter: @Maurollconde), a Professor of History of Science (Historiography of Science) at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil), where I am teaching since 1998. I received my Ph.D. in Philosophy (2001). From 2009 to 2010, I was a visiting scholar at Boston University (USA), and I also was a visiting scholar at the University of Vienna in 2016 and the University of São Paulo in 2017. My primary academic interests and topics of research focus on the relationship between the historiography of science and epistemology, especially Kuhn and Fleck, as well as the later Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language.
Editor in Chief - Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science [www.historiographyofscience.org].
As a hobby, I am a jazz musician. I play saxophones and flute (Bossa Nova, Brazilian Jazz, and American Jazz Standards).
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Condé, M. "Ideas, Phenomena and Mechanisms: The Role of Modern Physics in the Historical Epistemology of Fleck and Canguilhem". In. Pisano, Raffaele (Ed.). A History of Physics: Phenomena, Ideas and Mechanism. Springer, 2024.

A History of Physics: Phenomena, Ideas and Mechanism., 2024

Although historical epistemology is frequently understood in opposition to the traditional (ahis... more Although historical epistemology is frequently understood in opposition to the traditional (ahistorical) epistemology grounded mainly in classical physics (from the epistemology of modern science to logical positivism), physics also developed an essential role in the rise of historical epistemology. To a certain extent, the inclusion of biology, life sciences, and medicine —until then an “art of cure” —as one of the crucial parameters of historical epistemology (Fleck, Canguilhem) was due to the changes in the “new science” of physics (Relativity and Quantum Mechanics) occurred from the beginning of the twentieth century. This chapter aims to demonstrate that, in the 1930s and 1940s, ideas and theories presented by modern physics boosted an epistemological development in the sciences of life. In turn, biology and life sciences were vital in consolidating historical epistemology and understanding the history of science. This analysis is established from the works of two seminal authors in the historiography of science, Ludwik Fleck and Georges Canguilhem. When reconsidering the phenomenon of life inspired by ideas from modern physics, these two physicians allowed us to understand it as a new type of mechanism much more dynamic, including biological and social aspects.

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