09 Philosophisch-historische Fakultät
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Item Open Access Item Open Access Christopher Ray, The evolution of relativity : Bristol ..., Adam Hilger, 1987; [Rezension](1988) Hentschel, Klaus-Item Open Access Item Open Access Item Open Access Item Open Access Item Open Access Item Open Access Hiroomi Umezawa, Guiseppe Vitiello, Quantum mechanics : Napoli, Bibliopolis, 1985; [Rezension](1988) Hentschel, Klaus-Item Open Access Item Open Access On Feyerabend's version of "Mach's theory of research and its relation to Einstein"(1985) Hentschel, KlausRecently, the network of interactions around the "philosopher-scientist" Ernst Mach and especially his contested influence on Einstein have acquired new interest on account of several studies in which a revision of the "received versions" concerning the "Mach - Einstein episode" has been attempted. Paul K. Feyerabend has proposed among some "lessons to be learned" that "one cannot trust received opinions or received versions of great turning points of science", and started his program of elimination of "incorrect", and "simpleminded" legends in the history of science with a new reconstruction of the "battle about Mach and positivism: a net of confusions."Item Open Access Pesi Rustom Masani, Norbert Wiener, 1894 - 1964 : Basel ..., Birkhäuser, 1990; [Rezension](1991) Hentschel, Klaus-Item Open Access Item Open Access Philosophical interpretations of relativity theory : 1910 - 1930(1990) Hentschel, KlausThe paper (given in the section on "Recent work in the History of Philosophy of Science) discusses the method and some of the results of the doctoral dissertation on philosophical interpretations of Einstein's special and general theories of relativity, submitted to the Dept. for History of Science, Univ. of Hamburg, in 1989, also published by Birkhauser, Basel, in 1990. It is claimed that many of the gross oversimplifications, misunderstandings and misinterpretations occurring in more than 2500 texts about the theories of relativity written by scientists, philosophers, and laymen contemporary to Einstein can in fact serve as a clue to a better understanding of the general process by which philosophical interpretations are formed. Another very important source for answering the question of how misinterpretations are formed are hitherto unpublished documents in the estates of physicists and philosophers of that time, including apart from Einstein himself: Bergson, Bridgman, Carnap, Cassirer, Metz, Meyerson, Petzoldt, Reichenbach, Schlick and Vaihinger.Item Open Access Item Open Access Rajkumari Williamson (ed.), The Making of Physicists : Bristol, Adam Hilger, 1987; [Rezension](1991) Hentschel, Klaus-Item Open Access Item Open Access