Stephen Dersley is an independent scholar and language professional based in Poland. He received his MA in Philosophy from the University of Warwick in 1994 and has lived in Poland since 1997. For two decades, he worked as a teacher, teacher trainer, and academic manager, alongside a long-standing collaboration with Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań as a translator and editor of academic texts—especially in legal theory, philosophy of law, and related fields across the humanities and social sciences. Between 2017 and 2022, he contributed several courses at the university while pursuing doctoral research, and was awarded his PhD in 2023. His research interests include the philosophy of culture, legal theory, the history of society and science, discourse analysis, and knowledge practices.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Fleck’s Theory in Context.- 3. Chapter 3: Fleck’s Thought – Internal Positioning.- 4. Chapter 4: A Fleckian Framework for the Study of Cultural Change.- 5. Methodology and Supplementation.- 6.The Emergence of Philosophy as a Cultural Practice in Ancient Greece.- 7. The Transmission of Philosophy – the Socratic caesura.- 8. Hegelian Bildung as a development of paideia.- 9. The Rise of the Philosophical Faculty in the German University.- 10. Philosophy, Censorship, and the Public Sphere.- 11. Conclusions.

Stephen Dersley is an independent scholar and language professional based in Poland. He received his MA in Philosophy from the University of Warwick in 1994 and has lived in Poland since 1997. For two decades, he worked as a teacher, teacher trainer, and academic manager, alongside a long-standing collaboration with Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań as a translator and editor of academic texts—especially in legal theory, philosophy of law, and related fields across the humanities and social sciences. Between 2017 and 2022, he contributed several courses at the university while pursuing doctoral research, and was awarded his PhD in 2023. His research interests include the philosophy of culture, legal theory, the history of society and science, discourse analysis, and knowledge practices.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Fleck’s Theory in Context.- 3. Chapter 3: Fleck’s Thought – Internal Positioning.- 4. Chapter 4: A Fleckian Framework for the Study of Cultural Change.- 5. Methodology and Supplementation.- 6.The Emergence of Philosophy as a Cultural Practice in Ancient Greece.- 7. The Transmission of Philosophy – the Socratic caesura.- 8. Hegelian Bildung as a development of paideia.- 9. The Rise of the Philosophical Faculty in the German University.- 10. Philosophy, Censorship, and the Public Sphere.- 11. Conclusions.

Stephen Dersley is an independent scholar and language professional based in Poland. He received his MA in Philosophy from the University of Warwick in 1994 and has lived in Poland since 1997. For two decades, he worked as a teacher, teacher trainer, and academic manager, alongside a long-standing collaboration with Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań as a translator and editor of academic texts—especially in legal theory, philosophy of law, and related fields across the humanities and social sciences. Between 2017 and 2022, he contributed several courses at the university while pursuing doctoral research, and was awarded his PhD in 2023. His research interests include the philosophy of culture, legal theory, the history of society and science, discourse analysis, and knowledge practices.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Fleck’s Theory in Context.- 3. Chapter 3: Fleck’s Thought – Internal Positioning.- 4. Chapter 4: A Fleckian Framework for the Study of Cultural Change.- 5. Methodology and Supplementation.- 6.The Emergence of Philosophy as a Cultural Practice in Ancient Greece.- 7. The Transmission of Philosophy – the Socratic caesura.- 8. Hegelian Bildung as a development of paideia.- 9. The Rise of the Philosophical Faculty in the German University.- 10. Philosophy, Censorship, and the Public Sphere.- 11. Conclusions.