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Ernst Mach - A Deeper Look - Documents and New Perspectives (Hardcover, 1992 ed.)
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Ernst Mach - A Deeper Look - Documents and New Perspectives (Hardcover, 1992 ed.)
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 143
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Ernst Mach -- A Deeper Look has been written to reveal to
English-speaking readers the recent revival of interest in Ernst
Mach in Europe and Japan. The book is a storehouse of new
information on Mach as a philosopher, historian, scientist and
person, containing a number of biographical and philosophical
manuscripts publihsed for the first time, along with correspondence
and other matters published for the first time in English. The book
also provides English translations of Mach's controversies with
leading physicists and psychologists, such as Max Planck and Carl
Stumpf, and offers basic evidence for resolving Mach's position on
atomism and Einstein's theory of relativity. Mach's scientific,
philosophical and personal influence in a number of countries --
Austria, Germany, Bohemia and Yugoslavia among them -- has been
carefully explored and many aspects detailed for the first time.
All of the articles are eminently readable, especially those
written by Mach's sister. They are deeply researched, new
interpretations abound, and the bibliography includes recent works
by and about Mach from over a dozen countries. The book also
contains many articles by or about Mach's contemporaries, including
Ostwald, Dingler, Weichert and, especially, Einstein. Finally, and
most intriguingly, the original ideas of Japanese scholars are
presented, built on Mach's philosophy. These demonstrate how Mach's
world view is currently contributing to the solution of
contemporary philosophical problems.
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