书目名称 | Ernst Mach’s World Elements | 副标题 | A Study in Natural P | 编辑 | Erik C. Banks | 视频video | | 概述 | Includes supplementary material: | 丛书名称 | The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | Ernst Mach (1838-1916) was a seminal philosopher-scientist and a deserving member of the canon of major twentieth-century thinkers. Yet, despite a healthy resurgence in Mach studies, he is still widely thought to represent a simplistic positivist, even sensationalist, position that does not at all reflect the depth of Mach‘s interests and subtlety as a philosopher. By exploring Mach‘s views on science as well as philosophy, this book attempts to wrest him free from his customary association with logical positivism and to reinterpret him on his own terms as a natural philosopher and naturalist about human knowledge. Mach‘s development and his influences from 19th century German philosophy and science are probed in great conceptual and historical detail, and attention is paid to his unpublished .Nachlaß. as well as to the affinities between Mach‘s thought and that of other major philosopher-scientists such as Einstein, Bertrand Russell, William James, Helmholtz, Riemann, Herbart and Kant. In particular, the book strives to set forth the true nature of Mach‘s sensation-elements, the motivations for his critique of the concepts of space and time in physics, and the real meaning of his | 出版日期 | Book 2003 | 关键词 | 19th century; Albert Einstein; Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach; Hermann von Helmholtz; Immanuel Kant; K | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0175-4 | isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-6444-8 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-017-0175-4Series ISSN 1566-659X Series E-ISSN 2215-1974 | issn_series | 1566-659X | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2003 |
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