Hermann von Helmholtz's Mechanism: The Loss of Certainty A Study on the Transition from Classical to Modern Philosophy of Nature /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Schiemann, Gregor (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Archimedes, 17
• Subjects: Philosophy.; History.; Modern philosophy.; Philosophy and science.; Philosophy of nature.; Physics.; Modern Philosophy.; Philosophy of Nature.; History of Science.; Philosophy of Science.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

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 worl...

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.