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Time, Causality, and the Quantum Theory

Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Vol. 1: Essay on the Causal Theory of Time

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Authors:
  1. Henry Mehlberg
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Editors:
  1. Robert S. Cohen

    1. Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University, USA

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 19-1)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction to Volumes I and II

    1. Introduction to Volumes I and II

      • Henry Mehlberg, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 1-36

  3. The Causal Theory of Time in the Works of its Principal Representatives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-41
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    2. Leibniz and the Beginnings of the Causal Theory of Time

      • Henry Mehlberg, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 42-50

    3. Kant’s Phenomenalist Interpretation of the Causal Theory of Time

      • Henry Mehlberg, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 51-69

    4. Lechalas’ Adaptation of the Causal Theory of Time to the Laws of Pre-Einsteinian Physics

      • Henry Mehlberg, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 70-90

    5. The Relativistic Phase of the Causal Theory of Time: The Axiomatic Systems of Robb and Carnap

      • Henry Mehlberg, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 91-104

    6. The Relativistic Phase of the Causal Theory of Time: The Work of Reichenbach

      • Henry Mehlberg, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 105-133

    7. Russell’s Causal Explanation of Duration

      • Henry Mehlberg, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 134-146

    8. Alternative Approaches to Time’s Arrow

      • Henry Mehlberg, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 147-160

  4. Duration and Causality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161
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    2. The Intuitive Foundations of the Knowledge of Time

      • Henry Mehlberg, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 163-186

    3. Physical Time

      • Henry Mehlberg, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 187-236

    4. Non-Physical Time

      • Henry Mehlberg, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 237-260

  5. Supplement

    1. The Present Empirical Status of Psychophysical Parallelism

      • Henry Mehlberg, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 261-268

    2. Conceptual Analysis of Psychophysical Parallelism

      • Henry Mehlberg, Robert S. Cohen
      Pages 269-285

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 286-307
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About this book

An intermittent but mentally quite disabling illness prevented Henry Mehlberg from becoming recognized more widely as the formidable scholar he was, when at his best. During World War II, he had lived in hiding under the false identity of an egg farmer, when the Nazis occupied his native Poland. After relatively short academic appointments at the University of Toronto and at Princeton University, he taught at the University of Chicago until reaching the age of normal retirement. But partly at the initiative of his Chicago colleague Charles Morris, who had preceded him to a 'post-retirement' profes­ sorship at the University of Florida in Gainesville, and with the support of Eugene Wigner, he then received an appointment at that University, where he remained until his death in 1979. In Chicago, he organized a discussion group of scholars from that area as a kind of small scale model of the Vienna Circle, which met at his apart­ ment, where he lived with his first wife Janina, a mathematician. It was during this Chicago period that the functional disturbances from his illness were pronounced and not infrequent. The very unfortunate result was that colleagues who had no prior knowledge of the caliber of his writings in Polish and French or of his very considerable intellectual powers, had little incentive to read his published work, which he had begun to write in English.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University, USA

    Robert S. Cohen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Time, Causality, and the Quantum Theory

  • Book Subtitle: Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Vol. 1: Essay on the Causal Theory of Time

  • Authors: Henry Mehlberg

  • Editors: Robert S. Cohen

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8935-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1980

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0721-5Published: 30 November 1980

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1074-1Published: 30 November 1980

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-8935-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 308

  • Additional Information: Originally published in French

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science

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