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  title info:
    title: Hermann von Helmholtz's Mechanism: The Loss of Certainty
    sub title: A Study on the Transition from Classical to Modern Philosophy of Nature
  name:
    name part: Schiemann, Gregor.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 284 p. online resource.
  abstract: Two seemingly contradictory tendencies have accompanied the development of the natural sciences in the past 150 years. On the one hand, the natural sciences have been instrumental in effecting a thoroughgoing transformation of social structures and have made a permanent impact on the conceptual world of human beings. This historical period has, on the other hand, also brought to light the merely hypothetical validity of scientific knowledge. As late as the middle of the 19th century the truth-pathos in the natural sciences was still unbroken. Yet in the succeeding years these claims to certain knowledge underwent a fundamental crisis. For scientists today, of course, the fact that their knowledge can possess only relative validity is a matter of self-evidence. The present analysis investigates the early phase of this fundamental change in the concept of science through an examination of Hermann von Helmholtz's conception of science and his mechanistic interpretation of nature. Helmholtz (1821-1894) was one of the most important natural scientists in Germany. The development of this thought offers an impressive but, until now, relatively little considered report from the field of the experimental sciences chronicling the erosion of certainty.
  table of contents: Mechanism Between the Classical and the Modern Conception of Science -- The Conception of Mechanism -- The Classical Conception of Science -- Three Traditions in Mechanism -- Contours of Modern Philosophy of Nature -- Helmholtz's Mechanism at the Dawn of Modernity -- Helmholtz, a Bildungsbürger, Scientist, and Research Strategist -- Helmholtz’s Classical Mechanism -- The Hypothetization of Helmholtz’s Mechanism -- Conditions and Causes for the Change in Helmholtz’s Conception of Science and Nature.
  note: edited by Gregor Schiemann.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Modern philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy and science
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of nature
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Modern Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Nature
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Science
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
  classification: B790-5802
  classification: 190
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      title: Springer eBooks
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  identifier: 9781402056307
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5630-7
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204144349.0
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