Ernst Mach - Life, Work, Influence

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Stadler, Friedrich (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna Vienna Circle Society, Society for the Advancement of Scientific World Conceptions, 22
• Θέματα: Philosophy and science.; Gravitation.; Philosophy.; Philosophy of Science.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; History of Philosophy.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1. Der "Naturforscher" Ernst Mach (1838 - 1916) als Grenzgänger und Grenzüberschreiter - Zum Verhältnis von Geistes- und Naturwissenschaften aus heutiger Sicht (Friedrich Stadler)
• Chapter 2. Mach's influence on Einstein's "biggest blunder" and the consequences for modern cosmology (Peter C. Aichelburg)
• Chapter 3. Peter Salcher - the Mach's corresponding collaborator (Ana Alebic-Juretic)
• chapter 4. The Specter of "Austrian Philosophy": Ernst Mach and a Modern Tradition of Post-Philosophy (Katherine Arens)
• Chapter 5. Empiricism or Pragmatism? Ernst Mach's Ideas in America 1890-1910 (Ursula Baatz)
• Chapter 6. Empiricism or Pragmatism? Ernst Mach's Ideas in America 1890-1910 (Eric C.Banks)
• Chapter 7. Some remarks on Mach's philosophical doctrines (Sandy Berkovski)
• Chapter 8. Appraisal and influence of Mach's works in South America (Bermúdez_Campis_Dahmen_Villa)
• Mach, Duhem and the Historical Method in Philosophy of Science (Anastasios Brenner)
• Chapter 10. Duhem on Thought Experiments. Or: Did Duhem really reject Mach's Thought Experiments? (Marco Buzzoni)
• Chapter 11. Auguste Comte and the monistic positivism of Ernst Mach (Laurent Clauzade_
• Chapter 12. Mach's Post-Kantian Empiricism. For a New Concept of Givenness (Alexandre Couture-Mingheras)
• Chapter 13. The Transdisciplinary Legacy of Ernst Mach (Dahmen_ Villa_ Bermúdez_Campis)
• Chapter 14. Mach's criticism; or, A discourse on the method (Elena d'Amore)
• Chapter 15. Ernst Mach in Prague and the dawn of gasdynamics (Rudolf Dvorak)
• Chapter 16. Otto Blüh And Ernst Mach's Legacy: Inheritance And Task (Chantal Ferrer-Roca)
• Chapter 17. Ernst Machs 'Bekehrung' zum Atomismus / Ernst Mach's 'Conversion' to atomism - A dialogue between Mach and Popper-Lynkeus (Otto Blüh)
• Chapter 18. Introduction to the skit (Chantal Ferrer-Roca)
• Chapter 19. Brentano's lectures on positivism (1893-1894) and his relationship to Ernst Mach (Denis Fisette)
• Chapter 20. From Brentano to Mach. Carving Austrian Philosophy at Its Joints (Guillaume Fréchette)
• Chapter 21. On the Influence of Ernst Mach on Contemporary Physics Curriculum at Schools: The Concept of Weight (Igal Galili)
• Chapter 22. What Does It Mean to Orient Oneself in Science? On Ernst Mach's Pragmatic Epistemology (Pietro Gori)
• Chapter 23. Light and shadow - the experimental collaboration between Ernst Mach and Ludwig Mach, father and son (Johannes-Geert Hagmann)
• Chapter 24. Proposal for a Complete Edition of Ernst Mach's Correspondence (Klaus Hentschel)- Chapter 25. "Direct Observation": A Controversy About Ernst Mach's and Peter Salcher's Ballistic-Photographic Experiments
• Chapter 26. Ernst Mach and Johannes Kessel in Prague 1871-1874 (Rüdiger Hoffmann, Lutz-Peter Loebe)
• Chapter 27. Mach and Panqualitism (Tomáš Hříbek)
• Chapter 28. Experiment and Experience. On Ernst Mach's Theory of Scientific Experimentation (Eva-Maria Jung)
• Chapter 29. Mach's Views on Physical Space and Time and their Grounding in Perceptual Space and Time (Theodore L. Kneupper)
• Chapter 30. Reprint The discoveryof the Mach reflection effect and its demonstration in an auditorium (Petr O.K. Krehl)
• Chapter 31. Can Monism be Neutral? (Germinal Ladmiral)
• Chapter 32. The ''Mach argument'' and its use by Vladimir Fock to criticize Einstein in the Soviet Union (Jean-Philippe Martinez)
• Chapter 33. Mach's Educational Theory and Practice (Michael Matthews)
• Chapter 34. "New Water in Old Buckets: Hypothetical and Counterfactual Reasoning in Mach's Economy of Science" (Lydia Patton)
• Chapter 35. Ernst Mach´s Didactics in Context of Austrian History of Education (Josef Pircher)
• Chapter 36. Mach, Wittgenstein, Science and Logic (John Preston)
• Chapter 37. Ernst Mach's Geometry of Solids (Klaus Robering)
• Chapter 38. Mach's "sensation", Gomperz's "feeling", and the positivist debate about the nature of the elementary constituents of experience (David Romand)
• Chapter 39. The Scientific World-Conception in the Making:Towards the Ideological Roots of Logical Empiricism in Berlin and in Vienna (Günther Sandner)
• Chapter 40. Mach's and Salcher's photographs inspire a Multimedia project (Wolfgang Schöner)...- Chapter 41. Intentionality vs. Psychophysical Identity (Denis Seron)
• Chapter 42. Transforming thinking: Can Mach's pedagogy be replicated? (Hayo Siemsen)
• Chapter 43. Revisiting Einstein's Happiest Thought. From the Physiology of Perception to Experimental Propositions and Principles in the History of Relativity (Richard Staley)
• Chapter 44. Mach's Reception in Pre-Revolutionary Russia (Daniela Steila0
• Chapter 45. Economical Unification in Philosophy of Science Before and After Ernst Mach (Avril Styrman)
• Chapter 46. Ernst Mach as an Applicant and the Candidate secundo loco for two Professorships of Physics in Prague in 1866-67 (Emilie Těšínská)
• Chapter 47. Permanence of Forms as a Principle of Rationality (Iulian Toader)
• Chapter 48. Mach, Jerusalem and Pragmatism (Thomas Uebel)
• Chapter 49. "The most artistic lesson I ever heard" - a contribution to the reflection on a comment made by William James regarding a lesson by Ernst Mach (Mariana Valente)
• Chapter 50. Mach and Relativity Theory: A Neverending Story in HOPOSia? (Gereon Wolters)
• Chapter 51. Glossary of Mach-Related Terms Used in Science and Engineering (S&E) (Peter O.K. Krehl).