Time, Causality, and the Quantum Theory - Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Vol. 1: Essay on the Causal Theory of Time (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1980)

An intermittent but mentally quite disabling illness prevented Henry Mehlberg from becoming recognized more widely as the formidable scholar he was, when at his best. During World War II, he had lived in hiding under the false identity of an egg farmer, when the Nazis occupied his native Poland. After relatively short academic appointments at the University of Toronto and at Princeton University, he taught at the University of Chicago until reaching the age of normal retirement. But partly at the initiative of his Chicago colleague Charles Morris, who had preceded him to a 'post-retirement' profes sorship at the University of Florida in Gainesville, and with the support of Eugene Wigner, he then received an appointment at that University, where he remained until his death in 1979. In Chicago, he organized a discussion group of scholars from that area as a kind of small scale model of the Vienna Circle, which met at his apart ment, where he lived with his first wife Janina, a mathematician. It was during this Chicago period that the functional disturbances from his illness were pronounced and not infrequent. The very unfortunate result was that colleagues who had no prior knowledge of the caliber of his writings in Polish and French or of his very considerable intellectual powers, had little incentive to read his published work, which he had begun to write in English."

General

Imprint:	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 19-1
Release date:	November 1980
First published:	November 1980
Editors:	Carolyn R. Fawcett
Authors:	S. Mehlberg
Translators:	Paul Benacerraf
Editors:	Robert S. Cohen
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	308
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1980
ISBN-13:	978-90-277-1074-1
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science
LSN:	90-277-1074-0
Barcode:	9789027710741

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