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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.
In the letters contained in this book, David Bohm argues that the
dominant formal, mathematical approach in physics is seriously
flawed. In the 1950s and 60s, Bohm took a direction unheard of for
a professor of theoretical physics: while still researching in
physics, working among others with Yakir Aharanov and later Jeffrey
Bub, he also spent time studying "metaphysics"-such as Hegel's
dialectics and Indian panpsychism. 50 years on, questions raised
about the direction and philosophical assumptions of theoretical
physics show that Bohm's arguments still have contemporary
relevance.
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.
In the letters contained in this book, David Bohm argues that the
dominant formal, mathematical approach in physics is seriously
flawed. In the 1950s and 60s, Bohm took a direction unheard of for
a professor of theoretical physics: while still researching in
physics, working among others with Yakir Aharanov and later Jeffrey
Bub, he also spent time studying "metaphysics"-such as Hegel's
dialectics and Indian panpsychism. 50 years on, questions raised
about the direction and philosophical assumptions of theoretical
physics show that Bohm's arguments still have contemporary
relevance.
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