Editors:
- Explores the work and legacy of the most significant natural scientists and philosophers of the 19th and 20th century
- Presents a critical inventory of Mach’s lifework
- Features state-of-the-art research and historiography on Mach
Part of the book series: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook (VCIY, volume 22)
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Table of contents (50 chapters)
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On Mach’s Impact and Influence
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Mach, Physics, and the Natural Sciences
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Front Matter
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Mach and Pragmatism
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Front Matter
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About this book
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).Keywords
- Analysis of Sensations
- Ernst Mach and a Modern Tradition of Post-Philosophy
- Ernst Mach’s Ideas in America
- Ernst Mach on Contemporary Physics Curriculum at Schools
- Ernst Mach’s Pragmatic Epistemology
- Mach’s Theory of Scientific Experimentation
- Mach’s Geometry of Solids
- Mach's Reception in Pre-Revolutionary Russia
- The monistic positivism of Ernst Mach
Editors and Affiliations
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Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna, Vienna Circle Society, Vienna, Austria
Friedrich Stadler
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ernst Mach – Life, Work, Influence
Editors: Friedrich Stadler
Series Title: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04378-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04377-3Published: 06 November 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04378-0Published: 13 September 2019
Series ISSN: 0929-6328
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1818
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 741
Number of Illustrations: 73 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Science, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, History of Philosophy