World Views and Scientific Discipline Formation Science Studies in the German Democratic Republic Papers from a German-American Summer Institute, 1988

The various efforts to develop a Marxist philosophy of science in the one­ time 'socialist' countries were casualties of the Cold War. Even those who were in no way Marxists, and those who were undogmatic in their Marxisms, now confront a new world. All the more harsh is it for those who w...

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Other Authors: Woodward, W.R. (Editor), Cohen, Robert S. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1991, 1991
Edition:1st ed. 1991
Series:Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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Table of Contents:
  • Move over Darwin: The Ontogenetic Sources of William Preyer’s Developmental Psychology
  • On the Interdisciplinary Genesis of Experimental Methods in Nineteenth-Century German Psychology
  • V: Physics in the Context of Philosophy and Theory Of Science
  • From Boltzmann to Planck: On Continuity in Scientific Revolutions
  • Walther Nernst and Quantum Theory
  • Historical Explanations in Modern Physics: The Lesson of Modern Quantum Mechanics
  • Fritz London and the Community of Quantum Physicists
  • VI: Theory as Method
  • The Middle Ages: Darkness in the Sciences
  • to the Basic Concepts of Communication-Oriented Science Studies
  • Philosophical Problems of Modern Psychology
  • VII: Discipline Formation of Philosophy
  • Neo-Kantianism and Epistemology: On the Formation of a Philosophical Discipline in Nineteenth-Century Germany
  • The Transformation of German Philosophy inthe Context of Scientific Research in the Nineteenth Century
  • I: Introduction
  • World Views and Scientific Discipline Formation: How East German Science Studies Contributed to the Fall of the Cultural Wall
  • On the Origin and Nature of Scientific Disciplines
  • II: Ideas and Institutions
  • Relating Evolutionary Theory to the Natural Sciences
  • Dialectical Understanding of the Unity of Scientific Knowledge
  • History of Science in the GDR: Institutions and Programmatic Positions
  • III: Mathematics in a Socio-Political Context
  • Historiography of Mathematics: Aims, Methods, Tasks
  • The Berlin’ society for Scientific Philosophy’ as Organizational Form of Philosophizing in the Medium of Natural Science
  • Mathematics and Ideology in Fascist Germany
  • IV: Psychology Constructs its Subject Matter
  • Imageless Thought or Stimulus Error? The Social Construction of Private Experience
  • The Berlin Psychological Tradition: Between Experiment and Quasi-Experimental Design, 1850–1990
  • Reform Efforts of Logic at Mid-Nineteenth Century in Germany
  • VIII: Biological Evolution in the Mirror of Theories of Evolution
  • August Weismann: One of the First Synthetic Theorists of Evolutionary Biology
  • Darwin and the German Theologians
  • Two Faces of Biologism: Some Reflections on a Difficult Period in the History of Biology in Germany
  • What Keeps a Species Together
  • IX: Teachers and Students: Chemistry Laboratories and Dissertations
  • The Training in Germany of English-Speaking Chemists in the Nineteenth Century and its Profound Influence in America and Britain
  • Science and Practice in German Agriculture: Justus von Liebig, Hermann von Liebig, and the Agricultural Experiment Stations
  • Things Are Seldom What They Seem: The Story of Non-Phosphorylating Glycolysis
  • X: Natural Science and Naturphilosophie
  • Goethe’s Morphology of Stones: Between Natural History and Historical Geology
  • The Philosophy of Living Things: Schilling’s Naturphilosophie as a Transition to the Philosophy of Identity 339
  • A New Correspondence of the Philosopher F. W. J. Schelling
  • The Influence of Jakob Friedrich Fries on Matthias Schleiden
  • XI: Science and Society
  • The Geographical Vision and the Popular Order of Disciplines, 1848–1870
  • Knowledge Transfer in the Nineteenth Century: Young, Navier, Roebling, and the Brooklyn Bridge
  • Soviet-German Scientific Relations before World War II: Fruitful Cooperation in Different Social Orders
  • XII: The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge
  • Bourgeois Berlin Salons: Meeting Places for Culture and the Sciences
  • Max Delbrück: A Physicist in Biology
  • ‘Nobody Can Become a Real Engineer Who Has Not Already Become a Whole Person’
  • Summer Institute Program1988
  • About the Authors
  • Name Index