Ernst Mach's Vienna 1895-1930: Or Phenomenalism as Philosophy of Science / Edition 1

by J.T. Blackmore, R. Itagaki, S. Tanaka

Overview

Section Guide 1. Prolegomena 2. Biographical Sketch 3. Epistemology 4. Textbook Ontology 1. PROLEGOMENA While both philosophers and historians almost always love truth and the search for truth, and both often carry out extensive research, there can be noticeable differences when historians write about the history of philosophy and when philosophers write about it. Philosophers often look at the past with categories and interests taken from the present or at the least from the recent past, but many historians, especially those who love research for its own sake, will try to look at the past from a perspective either from that period or from even earlier. Both camps look for roots, but view them with different lenses and presupposi tions. This prolegomena has been added to prepare some philosophers for what will hopefully only be the mildest of shocks, for seeing the history of philosophy in a way which does not treat what is recent or latest as best, but which loves the context of ideas for its own sake, a context which can be very foreign to contemporary likes and dislikes. To be sure, we historians can deceive ourselves as easily as philosophers, but we tend to do so about different things.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789048157525
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	12/07/2010
Series:	Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science , #218
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2001
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.45(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction. 2. Friedrich Adler. 3. Philipp Frank. 4. Erwin Schrödinger; H. de Regt. 5. Otto Neurath 1913-1915; M. Stöltzner. 6. Von Hayek, Bergmann, and Mayer-Höfer. 7. Wittgenstein's Machist Sources; H. Visser. 8. Carnap's Machist ‘Phase'. 9. Musil Between Mach and Stumpf; M. Imai. 10. Husserl vs. Jerusalem. 11. Alois Höfler - Polymath. 12. The University of Vienna Philosophical Society. Appendix. Name Index.