Boris Hessen: Physics and Philosophy in the Soviet Union, 1927-1931 - Neglected Debates on Emergence and Reduction (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)

This book presents key works of Boris Hessen, outstanding Soviet philosopher of science, available here in English for the first time. Quality translations are accompanied by an editors' introduction and annotations. Boris Hessen is known in history of science circles for his "Social and Economic Roots of Newton's Principia" presented in London (1931), which inspired new approaches in the West. As a philosopher and a physicist, he was tasked with developing a Marxist approach to science in the 1920s. He studied the history of physics to clarify issues such as reductionism and causality as they applied to new developments. With the philosophers called the "Dialecticians", his debates with the opposing "Mechanists" on the issue of emergence are still worth studying and largely ignored in the many recent works on this subject. Taken as a whole, the book is a goldmine of insights into both the foundations of physics and Soviet history.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	History of Physics
Release date:	May 2021
First published:	2021
Editors:	Chris Talbot
Translators:	Chris Talbot
Editors:	Olga Pattison
Translators:	Olga Pattison
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	169
Edition:	1st ed. 2021
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-070044-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of other lands Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy Books > History > History of other lands Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
LSN:	3-03-070044-5
Barcode:	9783030700447

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