Boris Hessen : physics and philosophy in the Soviet Union, 1927-1931 : neglected debates on emergence and reduction / Chris Talbot, Olga Pattison, editors ; edited and translated by Chris Talbot and Olga Pattison.
2021
QC6 .H47 2021
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Boris Hessen : physics and philosophy in the Soviet Union, 1927-1931 : neglected debates on emergence and reduction / Chris Talbot, Olga Pattison, editors ; edited and translated by Chris Talbot and Olga Pattison.
Author
Hessen, Boris, author.
Uniform Title
Works. Selections. English
ISBN
9783030700454 (electronic bk.)
3030700453 (electronic bk.)
9783030700447
3030700445
3030700453 (electronic bk.)
9783030700447
3030700445
Published
Cham : Springer, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
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Translated from Russian.
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1 online resource : illustrations (some color)
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10.1007/978-3-030-70045-4 doi
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QC6 .H47 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
530.01
Summary
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 Newtons 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.
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History of physics (Springer (Firm))
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. The Fifth Congress of Russian Physicists
3. On Comrade Timiryazevs Attitude to Modern Science
4. On the Bicentenary of Isaac Newtons Death. Foreword to the Articles by A. Einstein and J.J. Thomson
5. Marian Smoluchowski (On the tenth anniversary of his death)
6. Mechanical Materialism and Modern Physics (Section 1)
7. Mechanical Materialism and Modern Physics (Section 2).
2. The Fifth Congress of Russian Physicists
3. On Comrade Timiryazevs Attitude to Modern Science
4. On the Bicentenary of Isaac Newtons Death. Foreword to the Articles by A. Einstein and J.J. Thomson
5. Marian Smoluchowski (On the tenth anniversary of his death)
6. Mechanical Materialism and Modern Physics (Section 1)
7. Mechanical Materialism and Modern Physics (Section 2).