<p>These two volumes form a full portrait of Hans Reichenbach, from the school boy and university student to the maturing and creative scholar, who was as well an immensely devoted teacher and a gifted popular writer and speaker on science and philosophy. We selected the articles for several reasons
Hans Reichenbach Selected Writings 1909โ1953: Volume Two
โ Scribed by Hans Reinchenbach (auth.), Maria Reichenbach, Robert S. Cohen (eds.)
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 1978
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 442
- Series
- Vienna Circle Collection 4b
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Present State of the Discussion on Relativity....Pages 3-47
The Theory of Motion According to Newton, Leibniz, and Huyghens....Pages 48-68
The Relativistic Theory of Time....Pages 69-80
The Causal Structure of the World and the Difference between Past and Future....Pages 81-119
The Aims and Methods of Physical Knowledge....Pages 120-225
Current Epistemological Problems and the use of a Three-Valued Logic in Quantum Mechanics....Pages 226-236
The Logical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics....Pages 237-278
The Philosophical Significance of the Wave-Particle Dualism....Pages 279-289
Front Matter....Pages 291-291
The Physical Presuppositions of the Calculus of Probability....Pages 293-309
A Letter to the Editor on the Physical Presuppositions of Probability Calculus....Pages 310-311
A Philosophical Critique of the Probability Calculus....Pages 312-327
Notes on the Problem of Causality....Pages 328-332
Causality and Probability....Pages 333-344
The Principle of Causality and the Possibility of its Empirical Confirmation....Pages 345-371
Induction and Probability....Pages 372-387
The Semantic and the Object Conceptions of Probability Expressions....Pages 388-404
A Letter to Bertrand Russell....Pages 405-411
Back Matter....Pages 413-436
โฆ Subjects
Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of the Social Sciences; History
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