Boris Hessen and Philosophy - The Socioeconomic Roots of Classical and Modern Physics

Informationen zum Autor Sean Winkler received his Ph.D. in Philosophy at KU Leuven and is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. He was the editor of Boris Hessen and the Dialectics of Natural Science a special edition of the Society and Politics Journal. Klappentext Sean Winkler provides a comprehensive reading of the work of pioneering figure to the history and philosophy of science, Boris Hessen. This analysis of Hessen's oeuvre engages with texts previously unstudied in the English and includes translations crucial to understanding Hessen's importance to modern physics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Practice and Ideology 2. Idealism and Materialism 3. Modern Physics 4. A Pantheon of Great Ideas Conclusion Postscript: Boris Hessen's Entries to the Soviet Encyclopedia Appendix 1 - "Space," B.M. Hessen Appendix 2 - "Ether," B.M. Hessen Appendix 3 - "Energy," B.M. Hessen Appendix 4 - "Entropy," B.M. Hessen Appendix 5 - "The Ergodic Hypothesis," B.M. Hessen Appendix 6 - "Einstein" H.M. Müntz and B.M. Hessen Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Sean Winkler
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781538147580
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4758-0
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Reframing the Boundaries: Thinking the Political
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Political, SCIENCE / History, Social & political philosophy, History of Science