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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hessen, Boris, author.

Contributor:

Talbot, Chris, editor, translator.

Pattison, Olga, editor, translator.

Series:

History of physics (Springer (Firm))

History of physics

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Physics--Philosophy.

Physics.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, [2021]

Language Note:

Translated from Russian.

System Details:

text file PDF

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.

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).

Notes:

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 9, 2021).

ISBN:

9783030700454

3030700453

OCLC:

1252704204

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.