Schema and Bias: An Historian’s Reflection on Double Blind Experiments
Ludwik Fleck Lecture 2011 by Carlo Ginzburg

Lecture by

Carlo Ginzburg
Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa, IT

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Venue:
University of Zurich

Abstract

Can double-blind experiments, used in medicine to test the effectiveness of a medicament, throw some light on the historian’s approach to evidence, objectivity and proof? The lecture will explore this tentative analogy through a few case studies, arguing that its implications suggest a new approach to some of the most debated aspects of Ludwik Fleck’s Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact.