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Joseph Agassi is an Israeli scholar born in Jerusalem on May 7, 1927. He has many books and articles published contributing to the fields of logic, scientific method, foundations of sciences, epistemology and, most importantly for this Journal, in the historiography of science. He studied with Karl Popper, who was definitely his biggest influence. He taught around the world in different universities. He currently lives in Herzliya, Israel. For his important contribution to the historiography of science, we chose to open the first issue of this journal with this interview recognizing his importance for the field, as well as paying our homage to him.

The main purpose of this article is to provide a type of general framework of Ludwik Fleck’s reception in Brazil. Although this is not strictly a review of Fleck’s work – what I did in some papers before – we can use some of Fleck’s concepts to understand how his ideas have spread in Brazil. In other words, how was the genesis and development of Fleck’s thought-style in different thought collective in Brazil.

From the Editors

Editorial of Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science issue 2 (June 2017).

Editor's Foreword (December 2016)