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Hugo Dingler was one of my first loves in the philosophy of science. When I was 16 I picked up his Grundlagen der Geometrie (1st ed.) in a second hand bookstore, and I was caught. I must have read all his books (though I never found his book on the Jewish question) and I was a determined Dinglerian for years afterwards. I think that his book Das Experiment, his Zusammenbruch der Wissenschaft and, of course, his Grundlagen der Geometrie are well worth reading. I also learned a lot from his short essay on Mach (with excerpts from Mach’s diaries). Dingler was a fascinating lecturer who presented matters in a vivid and picturesque way. I still remember his frequent references to the “Fleckenteppich des Positivismus”.
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Feyerabend, P.K. (2020). Autobiographical Remarks (1976). In: Collodel, M., Oberheim, E. (eds) Feyerabend’s Formative Years. Volume 1. Feyerabend and Popper. Vienna Circle Institute Library, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00961-8_2
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