Sean Winkler

Boris Hessen and Philosophy

The Socioeconomic Roots of Classical and Modern Physics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sean Winkler provides a comprehensive reading of the work of pioneering figure to the history and philosophy of science, Boris Hessen. This analysis of Hessen's oeuvre engages with texts previously unstudied in the English and includes translations crucial to understanding Hessen's importance to modern physics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 437g
• ISBN-13: 9781538147580
• ISBN-10: 1538147580
• Artikelnr.: 59991332

Autorenporträt

Sean Winkler received his Ph.D. in Philosophy at KU Leuven and is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. He was the editor of Boris Hessen and the Dialectics of Natural Science a special edition of the Society and Politics Journal.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Practice and Ideology
2. Idealism and Materialism
3. Modern Physics
4. A Pantheon of Great Ideas
Conclusion
Postscript: Boris Hessen's Entries to the Soviet Encyclopedia
Appendix 1 - "Space," B.M. Hessen
Appendix 2 - "Ether," B.M. Hessen
Appendix 3 - "Energy," B.M. Hessen
Appendix 4 - "Entropy," B.M. Hessen
Appendix 5 - "The Ergodic Hypothesis," B.M. Hessen
Appendix 6 - "Einstein" H.M. Müntz and B.M. Hessen
Bibliography
Index