The article concerns the significant for Suchodolski's research biography period of forming his outlook upon science of science. The author of the article is presenting in succession: the nature of Suchodolski's university education enabling him to take up a difficult science of science issue; main assumptions and tasks of the Scientific Circle of Mianowski Fund, and its predominantly eminent participants; the speeches Suchodolski delivered, and, finally, the discussions' nature and their course. The author has obtained her information both from meetings' reports of the Circle published in 'Polish Science' ("Nauka Polska") and lectures published in this yearly publication. The author has also taken into account the memories of Suchodolski concerning his own activity within the Scientific Circle of Mianowski Fund. The author is also presenting contemporary scientific outlooks of Suchodolski that are collated with views represented by other Circle's participants. The paper also reveals some information on the problems that were taken up on the Circle's sessions, and the Circle's influence on the birth of the Polish studies on the progress of human knowledge.
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In the article is presented the conception of the history of science in the interpretation of Bogdan Suchodolski. Having described the conception of the history of science created by George Sarton (1884-1956), whose thought was influenced by positivistic philosophy of August Comte, the idea of the history of science of Johan Nordstöm (1891-1967), who was inspired by the system of Wilhelm Dilthey, and the materialistic conception of the history of science, which was represented, among others, by John Desmond Eternal (1901-1971), the author is making an attempt at revealing to what extent Bogdan Suchodolski was inspired by the above-mentioned visions of the history of science. Having defined the history of science as the history of scientific activity of people and their consciousness formed by the activity, Bogdan Suchodolski applied in the field of his own conception of the history of science the ideas that were put forward by German thinkers and philosophers, and were connected with a way of understanding culture as the constant development of national awareness, which can be exemplified with different dimensions of culture. Undoubtedly, identifying the history of Polish science with constitutive element of the history of national culture and paying attention to the conceptions tending not only to explaining, but also understanding phenomena, B, Suchodolski was influenced by Alfred Vierkandt's and Wilhelm Dilthey's thought. The present article includes several reflections on the conception of the history of science, which was created by B. Suchodolski. Among others, we can find here detailed information on how B, Suchodolski understood: the history of science, its subject, aim and methodology; its status in modern social consciousness and as the history of truth relations between history of science and theory of science and scientific policy, history of science and the problem of unity and diversity of scientific thinking, history of science and ideas, history of culture and technology, and sources of scientific progress.
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