Selected Writings 1909–1953 Volume One

Selected Writings 1909–1953 Volume One / by M. Reichenbach ; edited by M. Reichenbach, Robert S. Cohen.

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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Main Author: Reichenbach, M. (Author, Editor)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Cohen, Robert S. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1978.
Edition:1st ed. 1978.
Series:Vienna Circle Collection ; 4a
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Philosophy and science.
Philosophy and social sciences.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 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 Hans Reichenbach: Maria Reichenbach
  • I / Early Writings on Social Problems
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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.

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