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Epistemological Writings - The Paul Hertz/Moritz Schlick centenary edition of 1921, with notes and commentary by the editors (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1977)
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Epistemological Writings - The Paul Hertz/Moritz Schlick centenary edition of 1921, with notes and commentary by the editors (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1977)
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 37
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[1977] Hermann von Helmholtz in the History of Scientific Method In
1921, the centenary of Helmholtz' birth, Paul Hertz, a physicist,
and Moritz Schlick, a philosopher, published a selection of his
papers and lectures on the philosophical foundations of the
sciences, under the title Schriften zur Erkenntnistheorie.
Combining qualities of respect and criticism that Helmholtz would
have demanded, Hertz and Schlick scrupulously annotated the texts.
Their edition of Helmholtz was of historical influence, comparable
to the influence among contemporary mathematicians and philosophers
of Hermann Weyl's annotated edition in 1919 of Riemann's great
dissertation of 1854 on the foundations of geometry. For several
reasons, we are pleased to be able to bring this Schlick/ Hertz
edition to the English-reading world: first, and primary, to honor
the memory of Hermann von Helmholtz; second, as writings of
historical value, to deepen the understanding of mathematics and
the natural sciences, as well as of psychology and philosophy, in
the 19th centur- for Helmholtz must be comprehended within at least
that wide a range; third, with Schlick, to understand the
developing empiricist philosophy of science in the early 20th
century; and fourth, to bring the contributions of Schlick, Hertz,
and Helmholtz to methodological debate in our own time, a half
century later, long after the rise and consolidation of logical
empiricism, the explosion of physics since Planck and Einstein, and
the development of psychology since Freud and Pavlov.
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