1st Edition
Logical Empiricism and the Physical Sciences From Philosophy of Nature to Philosophy of Physics
1 Introduction: From Philosophy of Nature to Philosophy of Physics 1
SEBASTIAN LUTZ AND ADAM TAMAS TUBOLY
PART 1
The Rise of Philosophy of Physics 19
2 The Electromagnetic Way to the Scientific World-Conception: Maxwell’s Equations at the Service of Logical Empiricism 21
JORDI CAT
3 Kurt Grelling and the Idiosyncrasy of the Berlin Logical Empiricism 64
NIKOLAY MILKOV
4 The Selection of Facts in Poincaré and Neurath 84
KATHERINE DUNLOP
5 The Philosopher Physicists: Albert Einstein and Philipp Frank 121
DON HOWARD
6 On the Empirical Refutation of Epistemological Doctrine in Hans Reichenbach’s Early Philosophy 157
ALAN RICHARDSON
PART 2
The Philosophy of Physical Theories 179
7 Carnap, Einstein, and the Empirical Foundations of Space-Time Geometry 181
ROBERT DISALLE
8 Einstein, General Relativity, and Logical Empiricism 198
THOMAS RYCKMAN
9 ‘Geometrization of Physics’ Vs. ‘Physicalization of Geometry’. The Untranslated Appendix to Reichenbach’s Philosophie der Raum-Zeit-Lehre 224
MARCO GIOVANELLI
10 Did Logical Positivism Influence the Early Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics? 262
JAN FAYE AND RASMUS JAKSLAND
11 Why Moritz Schlick’s View on Causality Is Rooted in a Specific Understanding of Quantum Mechanics 283
RICHARD DAWID
12 The Legacy of Logical Empiricism 295
CLARK GLYMOUR
PART 3
General Philosophy of Physics 313
13 Probability Theory as a Natural Science: Richard von Mises’ Frequentism 315
MARIA CARLA GALAVOTTI
14 From Physical Possibility to Probability and Back: Reichenbach’s Account of Coordination 336
FLAVIA PADOVANI
15 Two Constants in Carnap’s View on Scientific Theories 354
SEBASTIAN LUTZ
16 From the Periphery to the Center: Nagel, Feigl, and Hempel
379 MATTHIAS NEUBER
17 Understanding Metaphysics and Understanding Through Metaphysics: Philipp Frank on Scientific Theories and Their Domestication
401 ADAM TAMAS TUBOLY
Biography
Sebastian Lutz is senior lecturer of theoretical philosophy at Uppsala University. He works on philosophy of science, philosophical methodology, and the history of logical empiricism.
Adam Tamas Tuboly is postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, MTA BTK Lendület Morals and Science Research Group, and a research fellow at the Institute of Transdisciplinary Discoveries, Medical School, University of Pécs. He works on the history of logical empiricism and philosophy of science.
