Ernst Mach – Life, Work, Influence

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Springer Verlag (2019)
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This edited volume features essays written in honor of Ernst Mach. It explores his life, work, and legacy. Readers will gain a better understanding of this natural scientist and scholar who made major contributions to physics, the philosophy of science, and physiological psychology. The essays offer a critical inventory of Mach’s lifework in line with state-of-the-art research and historiography. It begins with physics, where he paved the way for Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. The account continues with Mach's contributions in biology, psychology, and physiology pioneering with an empiricist and gestalthaft Analysis of Sensations. Readers will also discover how in the philosophy of science he served as a model for the Vienna Circle with the Ernst Mach Society as well as paved the way for an integrated history and theory of science.

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Appraisal and Influence of Mach’s Works in South America.Ronald Villa, René Campis, David Dahmen & Eduardo Barrera
Brentano’s lectures on positivism (1893-1894) and his relationship to Ernst Mach.Denis Fisette
Can Monism be Neutral?Germinal Ladmiral
Empiricism or Pragmatism? Ernst Mach’s Ideas in America 1890–1910.Erik Banks
Ernst Mach and Johannes Kessel in Prague 1871–1874.Lutz-Peter Löbe & Rüdiger Hoffmann
Ernst Mach as an Applicant and the Candidate secundo loco for two Professorships of Physics in Prague in 1866–67.Emilie Těšínská
Ernst Mach in Prague and the Dawn of Gas Dynamics.Rudolf Dvořák
Ernst Mach: Science and Buddhism. A Misunderstanding Under Globalization’s Signature.Ursula Baatz
Ernst Mach’s Geometry of Solids.Klaus Robering
Ernst Mach’s „Bekehrung“ zum Atomismus / Ernst Mach’s “Conversion” to Atomism – A Dialogue Between Mach and Popper-Lynkeus.Otto Blüh
Experiment and Experience. On Ernst Mach’s Theory of Scientific Experimentation.Eva-Maria Jung
From Brentano to Mach. Carving Austrian Philosophy at its Joints.Guillaume Fréchette
Intentionality vs. Psychophysical Identity.Denis Seron
Light and Shadow – The Experimental Collaboration Between Ernst Mach and Ludwig Mach, Father and Son.Johannes-Geert Hagmann
Mach and Relativity Theory: ANeverending Story in HOPOSia?Gereon Wolters
Mach, Jerusalem and Pragmatism.Thomas Uebel
Mach, Wittgenstein, Science and Logic.John Preston
Mach’s Criticism, or a Discourse on the Method.Elena D’Amore
Mach’s Influence on Einstein’s “Biggest Blunder” and the Consequences for Modern Cosmology.Peter Aichelburg
Mach’s Post-Kantian Empiricism. For a New Concept of Givenness.Alexandre Couture-Mingheras
Mach’s Reception in Pre-revolutionary Russia.Daniela Steila
Mach’s Views on Physical Space and Time and Their Grounding in Perceptual Space and Time.Theodore Kneupper
Mach’s “Sensation”, Gomperz’s “Feeling”, and the Positivist Debate About the Nature of the Elementary Constituents of Experience. A Comparative Study in an Epistemological and Psychological Context.David Romand
New Water in Old Buckets: Hypothetical and Counterfactual Reasoning in Mach’s Economy of Science.Lydia Patton
Only a Philosophical “Holiday Sportsman”? – Ernst Mach as a Scientist Transgressing the Disciplinary Boundaries.Friedrich Stadler
Peter Salcher – Mach’s Corresponding Collaborator.Ana Alebic-Juretic
Revisiting Einstein’s Happiest Thought. From the Physiology of Perception to Experimental Propositions and Principles in the History of Relativity.Richard Staley
Some Remarks on Mach’s Philosophical Doctrines.Sandy Berkovski
The Discovery of the Mach Reflection Effect and Its Demonstration in an Auditorium.Martin Geest & Peter Krehl
The Scientific World-Conception in the Making: Towards the Ideological Roots of Logical Empiricism in Berlin and in Vienna.Günther Sandner
The Specter of “Austrian Philosophy”: Ernst Mach and a Modern Tradition of Post-Philosophy.Katherine Arens
The Transdisciplinary Legacy of Ernst Mach: From the Analysis of Sensations to the GPS Inside the Brain.Eduardo Barrera, René Campis, Ronald Villa & David Dahmen
The “Mach Argument” and its Use by Vladimir Fock to Criticize Einstein in the Soviet Union.Jean-Philippe Martinez
“Direct Observation”: A Controversy About Ernst Mach’s and Peter Salcher’s Ballistic-Photographic Experiments.Christoph Hoffmann
Brentano’s Lectures on Positivism and His Relationship to Ernst Mach.  (pages 39-50)Denis Fisette
Mach, Wittgenstein, science and logic.  (pages 63-90)John Preston
Mach and Panqualityism.  (pages 165-176)Tomas Hribek
Economical Unification in Philosophy of Science Before and After Ernst Mach.  (pages 199-121)Avril Styrman
Talking Past Each Other: Mach and Husserl on Thought Economy.  (pages 213-221)Iulian D. Toader
What Does it Mean to Orient Oneself in Science? On Ernst Mach’s Pragmatic Epistemology.  (pages 525-536)Pietro Gori
“The Most Artistic Lesson I Ever Heard” – A Contribution to the Reflection on a Comment Made by William James Regarding a Lesson by Ernst Mach.  (pages 537-549)Mariana Valente
Mach’s Educational Theory and Practice.  (pages 553-570)Michael Matthews
Transforming Thinking: Can Mach’s Pedagogy Be Replicated?  (pages 571-600)Karl Siemsen & Hayo Siemsen
On the Influence of Ernst Mach on Contemporary Physics Curriculum at Schools: The Concept of Weight.  (pages 601-614)Igal Galili
Mach’s and Salcher’s Photographs Inspire a Multimedia Project.  (pages 615-624)Clemens Ulrich, Wolfgang Schöner, Johannes Puschner & Tobias Macke
Ernst Mach’s Didactics in the Context of Austrian History of Education.  (pages 625-633)Josef Pircher
Mach, Duhem and the Historical Method in Philosophy of Science.  (pages 637-650)Anastasios Brenner
Duhem on Thought Experiments. Or: Did Duhem Really Reject Mach’s Thought Experiments?  (pages 651-662)Marco Buzzoni
Auguste Comte and the Monistic Positivism of Ernst Mach.  (pages 663-672)Laurent Clauzade
Proposal for a Complete Edition of Ernst Mach’s Correspondence.  (pages 675-680)Klaus Hentschel
Otto Blüh and Ernst Mach’s Legacy: Inheritance and Task.  (pages 681-693)Chantal Ferrer-Roca
Felix Kaufmann – “A Reasonable Positivist”?  (pages 709-719)Alexander Linsbichler

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