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Bergson and Modern Physics

A Reinterpretation and Re-evaluation

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  • © 1971

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  1. Milič Čapek
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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 7)

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Table of contents (41 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
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  2. Bergson’s Biological Theory of Knowledge

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Classical Biological Theory of Knowledge

      • Milič Čapek
      Pages 3-14

    3. The Intermediate Stage: Helmholtz, Mach and Poincaré

      • Milič Čapek
      Pages 15-29

    4. Bergson’s Amendment of the Classical Biological Theory of Knowledge

      • Milič Čapek
      Pages 30-39

    5. Why Mechanical-Pictorial Models Failed

      • Milič Čapek
      Pages 40-45

    6. The Contrast Between Technical Control and Intellectual Insight: The Persistent Influence of Macroscopic Imagery

      • Milič Čapek
      Pages 46-50

    7. Limitations of Panmathematism

      • Milič Čapek
      Pages 51-57

    8. Negative Aspects of Bergson’s Epistemology — Its Relations to Bachelard, Bridgman and Empirio-Criticism

      • Milič Čapek
      Pages 58-64

    9. Bergson, Reichenbach and Piaget

      • Milič Čapek
      Pages 65-71

    10. The Logic of Solid Bodies from Plato to Quine

      • Milič Čapek
      Pages 72-80
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About this book

Milic Capek has devoted his scholarship to the history and philosophy of modern physics. With impeccable care, he has mastered the epistemologi­ cal and scientific developments by working through the papers, treatises, correspondence of physicists since Kant, and likewise he has put his learning and critical skill into the related philosophical literature. Coming from his original scientific career with a philosophy doctorate from the Charles University in Prague, Capek has ranged beyond a narrowly defined philosophy of physics into general epistemology of the natural sciences and to the full historical evolution of these matters. He has ex­ pounded his views on these matters in a number of articles and, systema­ tically, in his book The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary PhYSiCS, published in 1961 and reprinted with two new appendices in 1969. His particular gift for many of his readers and students lies in the great period from the mid-nineteenth century through the foundations of the physics and philosophy of the twentieth, and within this spectacular time, Profes­ sor Capek has become a principal expositor and sympathetic critic of the philosophy of Henri Bergson. He joins a distinguished group of scholars -physicists and philosophers -who have been stimulated to some of their most profound and imaginative thought by Bergson's metaphysical and psychological work: Cassirer, Meyerson, de Broglie, Metz, Jankelevitch, Zawirski, and in recent years, Costa de Beauregard, Watanabe, Blanche, and others.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Bergson and Modern Physics

  • Book Subtitle: A Reinterpretation and Re-evaluation

  • Authors: Milič Čapek

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

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3096-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1971

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0186-2Published: 30 September 1971

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-3098-4Published: 13 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-3096-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 418

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science

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