Hermann von Helmholtz's mechanism : the loss of certainty : a study on the transition from classical to modern philosophy of nature /
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| Author / Creator: | Schiemann, Gregor. |
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| Uniform title: | Wahrheitsgewissheitsverlust : Hermann von Helmholtz' Mechanismus im Aufbruch der Moderne. English |
| Imprint: | [Dordrecht] : Springer, c2009. |
| Description: | x, 282 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Archimedes ; v. 17 Archimedes (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v. 17. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7630098 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface to the English Eition
- Preface to the German Edition
- Introduction
- Part I. Mechanism Between the Classical and the Modern Conception of Science
- 1. The Conception of Mechanism
- 1.1. What Is Mechanism?
- 1.2. The Concept of Classical Mechanics
- 2. The Classical Conception of Science
- 3. Three Traditions in Mechanism
- 3.1. Materialist Mechanism
- 3.2. Dual Mechanism
- 3.3. Dynamic Mechanism
- 3.3.1. Leibniz's Rationale for Dynamism
- 3.3.2. Kant's Dynamic Theory of Matter
- 3.4. Concluding Remark
- 4. Contours of Modern Philosophy of Nature
- 4.1. Hypotheticity as a Mark of the Modern Conception of Science
- 4.2. Conceptions of Nature as Worldviews
- Part II. Helmholtz's Mechanism at the Dawn of Modernity
- 5. Helmholtz, a Bildungsburger, Scientist, and Research Strategist
- 6. Helmholtz's Classical Mechanism
- 6.1. Mechanistic Program of 1847
- 6.1.1. Dual Mechanism
- 6.1.2. The Energetics Heuristics in Mechanism
- 6.2. Mechanics - the Underlying Principle of Geometry
- 6.3. Helmholtz's Classical Conception of Science and Nature
- 6.3.1. Helmholtz's Conception of Science up to the Late 1860s
- 6.3.2. Helmholtz's Classical-Mechanistic Conception of Nature
- 7. The Hypothetization of Helmholtz's Mechanism
- 7.1. Helmholtz's Conception of Science from the Early 1870s on
- 7.1.1. Emerging Critique of Atomistic Hypotheses (1871)
- 7.1.2. Re-Evaluating Hypotheses in Scientific Procedure (1874)
- 7.1.3. Approximating the Modern Concept of Science (1877 et seq.)
- 7.1.4. Summary
- 7.2. Helmholtz's Model-Theoretic Mechanism: Mechanistic Analogies and Mathematical Unification
- 8. Conditions and Causes for the Change in Helmholtz's Conception of Science and Nature
- Bibliography
- Index
