Selected Writings 1909–1953 Volume One
These two volumes form a full portrait of Hans Reichenbach, from the school boy and university student to the maturing and creative scholar, who was as well an immensely devoted teacher and a gifted popular writer and speaker on science and philosophy. We selected the articles for several reasons. M...
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1978, 1978
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1978 |
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Table of Contents:
- Student Years: Introductory Note to Part I (M.R.)
- 1. The Student (1912–13)
- 2. The Student Body and Catholicism (1912)
- 3. The Free Student Idea: Its Unified Contents (1913)
- 4. Why do we Advocate Physical Culture? (1913)
- 5. The Meaning of University Reform (1914)
- 6. Platform of the Socialist Students’ Party (1918)
- 7. Socializing the University (1918)
- 8. Report of the Socialist Student Party, Berlin and Notes on the Program (1918)
- II / Popular Scientific Articles
- 9. The Nobel Prize for Einstein (1922)
- 10. Relativity Theory in a Matchbox: A Philosophical Dialogue (1922)
- 11. Tycho Brahe’s Sextants (1926)
- 12. The Effects of Einstein’s Theory (1926)
- 13. An Open Letter to the Berlin Funkstunde Corporation (1926)
- 14. Laying the Foundations of Chemistry: The Work of Marcellin Berthelot (1927)
- 15. Memories of Svante Arrhenius (1927)
- 16. A New Model of the Atom (1927)
- 17. On the Death of H. A. Lorentz (1928)
- 15. Concerning Reichenbach’s Appointment to the University of California at Los Angeles: Charles Morris
- 16. Memories of Hans Reichenbach: Rudolf Carnap
- 17. Memories of Hans Reichenbach: Herbert Feigl
- 18. Recollections of Hans Reichenbach: Ernest Nagel
- 19. U.C.L.A.: Donald Kalish
- 20. U.C.L.A.: Paul Wienpahl
- 21. U.C.L.A.: Norman Dalkey
- 22. U.C.L.A.: Hermann F. Schott
- 23. A Blind Student Recalls Hans Reichcnbach: H. G. Burns
- 24. Recollections of Hans Reichenbach: David Brunswick
- 25. U.C.L.A., 1945–1950: Cynthia Schuster
- 26. U.C.L.A., 1949: W. Bruce Taylor
- 27. 1950: Donald A.Wells
- 28. U.C.L.A., 1951–53: Ruth Anna Putnam
- 29. Memories of Hans Reichenbach: Frank Leroi
- 30. Hans Reichenbach’s Definitive Influence on Me: Adolf Grünbaum
- 31. At the Chapel, 1953: Abraham Kaplan
- 32. Hans Reichenbach, a Memoir: Wesley C. Salmon
- 33. Memories of HansReichenbach: Maria Reichenbach
- I / Early Writings on Social Problems
- 18. Philosophy of the Natural Sciences (1928)
- 19. Space and Time: From Kant to Einstein (1928)
- 20. Causality or Probability? (1928)
- 21. The World View of the Exact Sciences (1928)
- 22. New Approaches in Science: Physical Research (1929)
- 23. New Approaches in Science: Philosophical Research (1929)
- 24. New Approaches in Science: Mathematical Research (1929)
- 25. The New Philosophy of Science (1929)
- 26. Einstein’s New Theory (1929)
- 27. Johannes Kepler (1930)
- 28. The Present State of the Sciences: The Exact Natural Sciences (1930)
- 29. One Hundred Against Einstein (1931)
- 30. Is the Human Mind Capable of Giange? (An Interview) (1932)
- III / General Scientific Articles
- 31. Metaphysics and Natural Science (1925)
- 32. Bertrand Russell(1929)
- 33. The Philosophical Significance of Modern Physics (1930)
- 34. The Königsberg Conference on the Epistemology of the Exact Sciences (1930)
- 35. The Problem of Causality in Physics (1931)
- Memories of Hans Reichenbach
- 1. Autobiographical Sketches for Academic Purposes
- 2. Memories of Wendeli Erné, Hans Reichenbach’s Sister
- 3. At the End of School Days: A Look Backward and a Look Forward (1909)
- 4. Letter from Reichenbach to His Four Years Older Brother Bernhard
- 5. From a letter of Bernhard Reichenbach to Maria Reichenbach (1975)
- 6. Memories of Ilse Reichenbach, Hans Reichenbach’s Sister-in-Law
- 7. Memories of Uncle Hans: Nino Erné
- 8. Hans’ Speech at the Funeral of His Father
- 9. Aphorisms of a Docent Formally Admitted to Teach at a University (1924)
- 10. University Student: Carl Landauer
- 11. University Student: Hilde Landauer
- 12. Memories of Hans Reichenbach, 1928 and Later: Sidney Hook
- 13. A Young University Teacher [from a letter of Carl Hempel to Maria Reichenbach, March 21, 1976]
- 14. A Professor in Turkey, 1936: Memories of Matild Kamber
- 36. The Physical Concept of Truth (1931)
- 37. Heinrich Scholz’History of Logic (1931)
- 38. Aims and Methods of Modern Philosophy of Nature (1931)
- 39. Kant and Natural Science (1933)
- 40. Carnap’sLogical Structure of the World (1933)
- 41. Theory of Series and Gödel’s Theorems (Sections 17–22) (1948)
- IV / Ethical Analysis
- 42. The Freedom of the Will (1959)
- 43. On the Explication of Ethical Utterances (1959)
- Bibliography of Writings of Hans Reichenbach
- Index of Names