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World Views and Scientific Discipline Formation

Science Studies in the German Democratic Republic Papers from a German-American Summer Institute, 1988

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Editors:
  1. William R. Woodward

    1. University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA

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  2. Robert S. Cohen

    1. Boston University, Boston, USA

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 134)

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Table of contents (39 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. World Views and Scientific Discipline Formation: How East German Science Studies Contributed to the Fall of the Cultural Wall

    • William R. Woodward
    Pages 1-15

  3. On the Origin and Nature of Scientific Disciplines

    • Martin Guntau, Hubert Laitko
    Pages 17-28

  4. Relating Evolutionary Theory to the Natural Sciences

    • Karl-Friedrich Wessel
    Pages 29-37

  5. Dialectical Understanding of the Unity of Scientific Knowledge

    • Herbert Hörz
    Pages 39-48

  6. History of Science in the GDR: Institutions and Programmatic Positions

    • Günter Kröber
    Pages 49-62

  7. Historiography of Mathematics: Aims, Methods, Tasks

    • Hans Wußing
    Pages 63-73

  8. The Berlin ‘Society for Scientific Philosophy’ as Organizational form of Philosophizing in the Medium of Natural Science

    • Hartmut Hecht, Dieter Hoffmann
    Pages 75-87

  9. Mathematics and Ideology in Fascist Germany

    • Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze
    Pages 89-95

  10. Imageless Thought or Stimulus Error? The Social Construction of Private Experience

    • Adrian Brock
    Pages 97-106

  11. The Berlin Psychological Tradition: Between Experiment and Quasi-Experimental Design, 1850–1990

    • Lothar Sprung
    Pages 107-116

  12. Move Over Darwin: The Ontogenetic Sources of William Preyer’s Developmental Psychology

    • Mary Mosher Flesher
    Pages 117-128

  13. On the Interdisciplinary Genesis of Experimental Methods in Nineteenth-Century German Psychology

    • Martin Müller
    Pages 129-140

  14. From Boltzmann to Planck: On Continuity in Scientific Revolutions

    • Martin Koch
    Pages 141-150

  15. Walther Nernst and Quantum Theory

    • Diana Barkan
    Pages 151-162

  16. Historical Explanations in Modern Physics? The Lesson of Quantum Mechanics

    • Ulrich Röseberg
    Pages 163-175

  17. Fritz London and the Community of Quantum Physicists

    • Steve J. Heims
    Pages 177-190

  18. The Middle Ages: Darkness in the Sciences?

    • Gerald Wicklein
    Pages 191-198

  19. Introduction to the Basic Concepts of Communication-Oriented Science Studies

    • Hans-Peter Krüger
    Pages 199-208

  20. Philosophical Problems of Modern Psychology

    • John Erpenbeck
    Pages 209-222
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About this book

The various efforts to develop a Marxist philosophy of science in the one­ time 'socialist' countries were casualties of the Cold War. Even those who were in no way Marxists, and those who were undogmatic in their Marxisms, now confront a new world. All the more harsh is it for those who worked within the framework imposed upon professional philosophy by the official ideology. Here in this book, we are concerned with some 31 colleagues from the late German Democratic Republic, representative in their scholarship of the achievements of a curiously creative while dismayingly repressive period. The literature published in the GDR was blossoming, certainly in the final decade, but it developed within a totalitarian regime where personal careers either advanced or faltered through the private protection or denunciation of mentors. We will never know how many good minds did not enter the field of philosophy in the first place due to their prudent judgments that there was a virtual requirement that the candidate join the Socialist Unity (i.e. Communist) Party. Among those who started careers and were sidetracked, the record is now beginning to be revealed; and for the rest, the price of 'doing philosophy' was mostly silence in the face of harassments the likes of which make academic politics in the West seem child's play.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA

    William R. Woodward

  • Boston University, Boston, USA

    Robert S. Cohen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: World Views and Scientific Discipline Formation

  • Book Subtitle: Science Studies in the German Democratic Republic Papers from a German-American Summer Institute, 1988

  • Editors: William R. Woodward, Robert S. Cohen

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

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3164-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1991

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1286-4Published: 31 October 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5395-2Published: 14 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-3164-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 471

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, History, general

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