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Anthropological approaches to the sciences have developed as part
of a broader tradition concerned about the place of the sciences in
today's world and in some basic sense concerned with questions
about the legitimacy of the sciences. In the years since the second
World War, we have seen the emergence of a number of different
attempts both to analyze and to cope with the successes of the
sciences, their broad penetration into social life, and the sense
of problem and crisis that they have projected. Among the of
movements concerned about the earlier responses were the
development social responsibility of scientists and technological
practitioners. There is little doubt that this was a direct
outgrowth of the role of science in the war epitomized by the
successful construction and catastrophic use of the atomic bomb.
The recognition of the deep social utility of science, and
especially its role as an instrument of war, fostered curiosity
about the earlier develop ment of scientific disciplines and
institutional forms. The history of science as an explicit
diSCipline with full-time practitioners can be seen as an attempt
to locate science in temporal space - first in its intellectual
form and second ly in its institutional or social form. The
sociology of science, while certainly having roots in the pre-war
work of Robert K."
Anthropological approaches to the sciences have developed as part
of a broader tradition concerned about the place of the sciences in
today's world and in some basic sense concerned with questions
about the legitimacy of the sciences. In the years since the second
World War, we have seen the emergence of a number of different
attempts both to analyze and to cope with the successes of the
sciences, their broad penetration into social life, and the sense
of problem and crisis that they have projected. Among the of
movements concerned about the earlier responses were the
development social responsibility of scientists and technological
practitioners. There is little doubt that this was a direct
outgrowth of the role of science in the war epitomized by the
successful construction and catastrophic use of the atomic bomb.
The recognition of the deep social utility of science, and
especially its role as an instrument of war, fostered curiosity
about the earlier develop ment of scientific disciplines and
institutional forms. The history of science as an explicit
diSCipline with full-time practitioners can be seen as an attempt
to locate science in temporal space - first in its intellectual
form and second ly in its institutional or social form. The
sociology of science, while certainly having roots in the pre-war
work of Robert K."
[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.
[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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