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Weimar culture and quantum mechanics : selected papers by Paul Forman and contemporary perspectives on the Forman thesis /
"This volume reprints Paul Forman's classic papers on the history of the scientific profession in post-World War I Germany and the invention of quantum mechanics. The Forman thesis became famous for its demonstration of the cultural conditioning of scientific knowledge, in particular by sh...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London : Singapore :
Imperial College Press ; World Scientific,
©2011.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Forman thesis : 40 years after / Cathryn Carson, Alexei Kojevnikov and Helmuth Trischler
- Cold War culture, history of science and postmodernity : engagement of an intellectual in a holistic academic environment / J.L. Heilbron
- Selected chronological bibliography of Paul Forman's scholarship
- Scientific internationalism and the Weimar physicists : the ideology and its manipulation in Germany after World War I / Paul Forman
- The financial support and political alignment of physicists in Weimar Germany / Paul Forman
- Weimar culture, causality, and quantum theory, 1918-27 : adaptation by German physicists and mathematicians to a hostile intellectual environment / Paul Forman
- Kausalität, Anschaulichkeit, and Individualität, or, how cultural values prescribed the character and the lessons ascribed to quantum mechanics / Paul Forman
- The reception of an acausal quantum mechanics in Germany and Britain / Paul Forman
- Paul Forman and the environment and practice of quantum history / David C. Cassidy
- Culture and mechanics in Germany, 1869-1918 : a sketch / Richard Staley
- The establishment of a network of reactionary physicists in the Weimar Republic / Stefan L. Wolff
- Philosophical rhetoric in early quantum mechanics 1925-27 : high principles, cultural values and professional anxieties / Alexei Kojevnikov
- 'The shackles of causality' : physics and philosophy in the Netherlands in the Interwar period / Kai Eigner and Frans van Lunteren
- Crisis, measurement problems and controversy in early quantum electrodynamics : the failed appropriation of epistemology in the second quantum generation / Anja Skaar Jacobsen
- Causality in physics and in the history of physics : a comparison of Bohm's and Forman's papers / Olival Freire
- Forman reformed, again / M. Norton wise
- From Kosmos to Koralle : on the culture of science reading in Imperial and Weimar Germany / Arne Schirrmacher
- Living ambiguity : speculative bodies of science in Weimar culture / Cornelius Borck
- Science and politics : pathology in Weimar Germany (1918-33) / Cay-Rüdiger Prüll
- Jordan alias Domeier : science and cultural politics in late Weimar conservatism / Richard H. Beyler
- The causality debates of the interwar years and their preconditions : revisiting the Forman thesis from a broader perspective / Michael Stöltzner
- Modern or anti-modern science? : Weimar culture, natural science and the Heidegger-Heisenberg exchange / Cathryn Carson.