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Selected Writings 1909–1953

Volume One

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  • © 1978

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Editors:
  1. Maria Reichenbach
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  2. Robert S. Cohen

    1. Boston University, Boston, USA

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Part of the book series: Vienna Circle Collection (VICC, volume 4a)

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Table of contents (45 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Memories of Hans Reichenbach

    1. Memories of Hans Reichenbach

      • Maria Reichenbach, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 1-87

  3. Early Writings on Social Problems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. Student Years: Introductory Note to Part I

      • Maria Reichenbach
      Pages 91-101

    3. The Student [1912f]

      • Maria Reichenbach, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 102-103

    4. The Student Body and Catholicism [1912c]

      • Maria Reichenbach, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 104-107

    5. The Free Student Idea: Its Unified Contents [1913c]

      • Maria Reichenbach, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 108-123

    6. Why do We Advocate Physical Culture? [19l3g]

      • Maria Reichenbach, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 124-128

    7. The Meaning of University Reform [1914c]

      • Maria Reichenbach, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 129-131

    8. Platform of the Socialist Students’ Party [1918b]

      • Maria Reichenbach, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 132-135

    9. Socializing the University [1918a]

      • Maria Reichenbach, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 136-180

    10. Report of the Socialist Student Party, Berlin

      • Maria Reichenbach, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 181-185

  4. Popular Scientific Articles

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
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    2. The Nobel Prize for Einstein [1922a]

      • Maria Reichenbach, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 189-191

    3. Relativity Theory in a Matchbox: A Philosophical Dialogue [1922b]

      • Maria Reichenbach, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 192-195

    4. Tycho Brahe’s Sextants [1926a]

      • Maria Reichenbach, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 196-200

    5. The Effects of Einstein’s Theory [1926d]

      • Maria Reichenbach, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 201-206

    6. An Open Letter to the Berlin Funkstunde Corporation [1926e]

      • Maria Reichenbach, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 207-211

    7. Laying the Foundations of Chemistry: The Work of Marcellin Berthelot [1927a]

      • Maria Reichenbach, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 212-215

    8. Memories of Svante Arrhenius [1927b]

      • Maria Reichenbach, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 216-218
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About this book

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. Many of them have not pre­ viously been available in English; many are out of print, either in English or in German; some, especially the early ones, have been little known, and deal with subject-matters other than philosophy of science. The genesis and evolu­ tion of Reichenbach's ideas appeared to be of deep interest, and so we in­ cluded papers from four decades, despite occasional redundancy. We were, for example, pleased to include his extensive review article from the encyclo­ pedic Handbuch der Physik of 1929 on 'The Aims and Methods of Physical Knowledge', written at a time of creative collaboration between Reichenbach's Berlin group and the Vienna Circle of Schlick and Carnap. Reichenbach was a pioneer, opening new pathways to the solution of age-old problems in many fields: space, time, causality, induction and probability - philosophical analysis and interpretation of classical physics, relativity and quantum physics - logic, language, ethics, scientific explanation and methodology, critical appreciation and reconstruction of past metaphysical thinkers and scientists from Plato to Leibniz and Kant. Indeed, his own philosophical journey was initiated by his passage from Kant to anti-Kant.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Boston University, Boston, USA

    Robert S. Cohen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Selected Writings 1909–1953

  • Book Subtitle: Volume One

  • Editors: Maria Reichenbach, Robert S. Cohen

  • Series Title: Vienna Circle Collection

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9761-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1978

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0291-3Published: 31 December 1978

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0292-0Published: 31 December 1978

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-9761-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 502

  • Additional Information: Originally published in German

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, History, general

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