Ernst Mach - life, work, influence
This edited volume features essays written in honor of Ernst Mach. It explores his life, work, and legacy. Readers will gain a better understanding of this natural scientist and scholar who made major contributions to physics, the philosophy of science, and physiological psychology. The essays offer a critical inventory of Mach's lifework in line with state-of-the-art research and historiography. It begins with physics, where he paved the way for Einstein's Theory of Relativity. The account con…
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- Full title :Ernst Mach - life, work, influence / Friedrich Stadler, editor.
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This edited volume features essays written in honor of Ernst Mach. It explores his life, work, and legacy. Readers will gain a better understanding of this natural scientist and scholar who made major contributions to physics, the philosophy of science, and physiological psychology. The essays offer a critical inventory of Mach's lifework in line with state-of-the-art research and historiography. It begins with physics, where he paved the way for Einstein's Theory of Relativity. The account continues with Mach's contributions in biology, psychology, and physiology pioneering with an empiricist and gestalthaft Analysis of Sensations. Readers will also discover how in the philosophy of science he served as a model for the Vienna Circle with the Ernst Mach Society as well as paved the way for an integrated history and theory of science. Indeed, his influence extends far beyond the natural sciences -- to the Vienna Medical School and psychoanalysis (R. Bárány, J. Breuer, S. Freud), to literature (Jung Wien, R. Musil), to politics (F. Adler, Austro-Marxism and the Viennese adult education), to arts between Futurism and Minimal Art as well as to social sciences between the liberal school (J. Schumpeter, F.A. von Hayek) and empirical social research (P. Lazarsfeld und M. Jahoda).
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- Publication Date:2019.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Springer
- Place of Publication:Cham
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2019.
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6.4 Gomperz's Feeling-Based Epistemology
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (720 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9783030043780, 3030043789, 9783030043773, 3030043770, 9783030043797, 3030043797
- DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-04378-0
- oclc:on1120694921
- LC Classification:QC16.M33
- Dewey Decimal:530/.092
Table of Contents
Intro; Editorial; Contents; Part I Mach and Austrian Philosophy; 1 Only a Philosophical "Holiday Sportsman"? -- Ernst Mach as a Scientist Transgressing the Disciplinary Boundaries; 1.1 Mach and His Times -- An Extraordinary Intellectual Journey; 1.2 Mach and Philosophy; References; References; 2 The Specter of "Austrian Philosophy": Ernst Mach and a Modern Tradition of Post-Philosophy; 2.1 Kant's Begriffe: The Act of Grasping as Localized, Embodied Knowledge Production; 2.2 Defining Disciplines Within an "Austrian" Tradition: Kantianism as Pedagogy
2.3 Some Conclusions: Remapping Philosophical Disciplines3 Brentano's Lectures on Positivism (1893-1894) and His Relationship to Ernst Mach; 3.1 Brentano's Background and the Sources of His Interests in Positivism; 3.2 Brentano's Lectures "Contemporary Philosophical Questions": An Overview; 3.3 Mach's Psychophysical Identity and His Theory of Elements; 3.4 The Argument of Brentano Against the Identity Thesis: Intentionality; 3.5 Identity Versus Correlation; 3.6 Final Remarks; References; 4 From Brentano to Mach. Carving Austrian Philosophy at its Joints
4.1 The Received View. Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung4.2 Mach as Brentano's Succ…
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