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Philosophy, History and Social Action - Essays in Honor of Lewis Feuer with an autobiographic essay by Lewis Feuer (Hardcover, 1988 ed.)
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Philosophy, History and Social Action - Essays in Honor of Lewis Feuer with an autobiographic essay by Lewis Feuer (Hardcover, 1988 ed.)
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 107
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Two articles by Lewis Feuer caught my attention in the '40s when 1
was wondering, asa student physicist, about the relations of
physics to philosophy and to the world in turmoil. One was his
essay on 'The Development of Logical Empiricism' (1941), and the
other his critical review of Philipp Frank's biography of Einstein,
'Philosophy and the Theory of Relativity' (1947). How extraordinary
it was to find so intelligent, independent, critical, and humane a
mind; and furthermore he went further, as I soon realized when I
looked for his name on other publications. I recall arguing with
myself over his exploration of 'Indeterminacy and Economic
Development' (1948), and even more when I read his 'Dialectical
Materialism and Soviet Science' (1949). More papers, and then the
fascinating, sometimes irritating, always insightful, books. His
monograph on Psychoanalysis and Ethics 1955, the beautiful
sociological and humanist study of Spinoza and the Rise of
Liberalism (1958), his essays on 'The Social Roots of Einstein's
Theory of Relativity' (1971) together with the book on Einstein and
the Genera tions of Science (1974), the splendid reader from the
works of Marx and Engels, Basic Writings on Politics and Philosophy
(1959) which was a major text of the '60s, the stimulating essays
on the social formation which seems to have been required for a
modern scientific movement to develop, set forth most convincingly
in The Scientific Intellectual (1963)."
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