Interpreting Mach : critical essays

This volume presents new essays on the work and thought of physicist, psychologist and philosopher Ernst Mach. Moving away from previous estimations of Mach as a pre-logical positivist, the essays reflect his rehabilitation as a thinker of direct relevance to debates in the contemporary philosophies...

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Auteur principal : Preston John (Directeur de publication)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Interpreting Mach : critical essays / edited by John Preston,...
Publié : Cambridge [etc.] : Cambridge University Press , 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-287 p.)
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  • Introduction : a new Mach for a new millennium / John Preston
  • Ernst Mach s piano and the making of a psychophysical imaginarium / Alexandra Hui
  • Mother s milk and more : on the role of Ernst Mach s relational physics in the development of Einstein s theory of relativity / Richard Staley
  • Meaningful work : Ernst Mach on energy conservation / Daan Wegener
  • Mach on analogy in science / S.G. Sterrett
  • Ernst Mach s enlightenment pragmatism : history and economy in scientific cognition / Thomas Uebel
  • On the philosophical and scientific relationship between Ernst Mach and William James / Alexander Klein
  • Ernst Mach and Friedrich Nietzsche : on the prejudices of scientists / Pietro Gori
  • Abstraction, pragmatism, and history in Mach s economy of science / Lydia Patton
  • Holding the hand of history : Mach on the history of science, the analysis of sensations, and the economy of thought / Luca Guzzardi
  • Ernst Mach and the Vienna circle : a re-evaluation of the reception and influence of his work / Friedrich Stadler
  • Narratives divided : the Austrian and the German Mach / Michael Stöltzner
  • Phenomenalism, or neutral monism, in Mach s Analysis of Sensations? / John Preston
  • The case for Mach s neutral monism / Erik C. Banks