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The Law of Causality and Its Limits (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998) Loot Price: R2,961
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The Law of Causality and Its Limits (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998): Philipp Frank

The Law of Causality and Its Limits (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998)

Philipp Frank; Edited by Robert S. Cohen

Series: Vienna Circle Collection, 22

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The Law of Causality and its Limits was the principal philosophical work of the physicist turned philosopher, Philipp Frank. Born in Vienna on March 20, 1884, Frank died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on July 21, 1966. He received his doctorate in 1907 at the University of Vienna in theoretical physics, having studied under Ludwig Boltzmann; his sub sequent research in physics and mathematics was represented by more than 60 scientific papers. Moreover his great success as teacher and expositor was recognized throughout the scientific world with publication of his collaborative Die Differentialgleichungen der Mechanik und Physik, with Richard von Mises, in 1925-27. Frank was responsible for the second volume, on physics, and especially noted for his authoritative article on classical Hamiltonian mechanics and optics. Among his earliest papers were those, beginning in 1908, devoted to special relativity, which together with general relativity and physical cosmology occupied him throughout his life. Already in 1907, Frank published his seminal paper 'Kausalgesetz und Erfahrung' ('Experience and the Law of Causality'), much later collected with a splendid selection of his essays on philosophy of science, in English (1941c and 1949g, in our Bibliography). Joining the first 'Vienna Circle' in the first decade of the 20th century, with Hans Hahn, mathematician, and Otto Neurath, sociologist and economist, and deeply influenced by studies of Ernst Mach's critical conceptual histories of science and by the striking challenge of Poincare and Duhem, Frank continued his epistemological investigations."

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Imprint: Springer
Country of origin: Netherlands
Series: Vienna Circle Collection, 22
Release date: December 2012
First published: 1998
Authors: Philipp Frank
Editors: Robert S. Cohen
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 302
Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998
ISBN-13: 978-9401063234
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science
Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
Books > History > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
LSN: 9401063230
Barcode: 9789401063234

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