Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts in Philosophy

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Drieschner, Michael (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice, 23
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Comparative politics.; Epistemology.; Philosophy and science.; Physics.; Philosophy of Science.; Comparative Politics.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

This book presents a collection of texts by the German philosopher and physicist Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912-2007), for use in seminars on philosophy, mainly epistemology and the philosophy of physics or foundations of quantum mechanics, but also for courses on German philosophy of the 20th...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Preliminary Epistemological Considerations
• A Description of Physics
• Time – Physics – Metaphysics
• Biological Preliminaries to Logic
• Models of Health and Illness, Good and Evil, Truth and Falseness
• Parmenides and the Graylag Goose
• Parmenides and Quantum Theory
• Possibility and Movement: A Note on Aristotelian Physics
• The Rationality of Emotions
• On Power.