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5841Pierre Duhem gilt ais einer der wichtigsten Reprüsentanten der franzosischen Wissenschaftsphilosophie um 1900. Seine Konzeption physikalischer Theorien wird üblicherweise ais moderne Umsetzung des antiken – proto-positivistischen – Programms der „Rettung der Phänomene‟ angesehen. Diese Sicht ist richtig, bedarf aber der Ergänzung, indem der diskursive Kontext der Duhemschen Position berücksichtigt wird. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird dargelegt, dass Duhems philosophischer Zeitgenosse Abel Rey eine…Read more
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31Helmholtz, Kaila, and the Representational Theory of MeasurementHopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 8 (2): 409-431. 2018.The problem of measurement can be reformulated as the problem of measurability: What are the conditions under which measurement becomes possible at all? And what is the ontological status of concrete measurement outcomes? It will be shown in the course of this article that what Joel Michell deemed the ‘representational theory’ of measurement provides an adequate framework for answering these questions. However, contrary to Michell, I will point out that Hermann von Helmholtz should be seen as an…Read more
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13,,Denn was man messen kann, das existiert auch." Grundzüge eines metrologischen StrukturenrealismusZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 72 (1): 50-74. 2018.
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162Perception and Coincidence in Helmholtz’s Theory of MeasurementJournal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 6 (3). 2018.The present paper is concerned with Helmholtz’s theory of measurement. It will be argued that an adequate understanding of this theory depends on how Helmholtz’s application of the concepts of perception and coincidence is interpreted. In contrast both to conventionalist and Kantian readings of Helmholtz’s theory, a more realistic interpretation will be suggested.
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26Mathematik und Ontologie. Der lange Weg zum,strukturellen Formalismus'Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 71 (3): 358-379. 2017.
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9Die Kulturphilosophie Ernst Cassirers – Neuere Forschungstrends und -perspektivenPhilosophische Rundschau 63 (3): 263. 2016.
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27Treffpunkt Struktur – Cassirer, Schlick und CarnapArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 95 (2): 206-233. 2013.Structure is the connecting link between the early epistemologies of Cassirer, Schlick, and Carnap. However, there are important programmatic differences among Cassirer’s, Schlick’s, and Carnap’s articulations of the structuralistic point of view. Whereas Cassirer hoped to argue in favor of an ‚idealist‘ and Schlick in favor of a ‚realist‘ conception of structure, Carnap thought it possible to remain neutral in this respect. I will argue that Carnap’s approach, though at first sight promising, w…Read more
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41Matthias Koßler (Hg.): Musik als Wille und Welt. Schopenhauers Philosophie der MusikPhilosophischer Literaturanzeiger 64 (4): 349-355. 2011.
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1704Philosophie der modernen Physik - Philipp Frank und Abel ReyGrazer Philosophische Studien 80 (1): 131-149. 2010.The aim of this paper is to show that the French philosopher and historian of science Abel Rey played a more influential role in the formative phase of the Vienna Circle than hitherto supposed. On the whole, it will be argued that Rey's contribution had political impact. His interpretation of "modern physics" in 1907 in the face of the alleged "bankruptcy of science" should be appreciated as a masterpiece of applied enlightenment thought. As such, it was especially paradigmatic for Philipp Frank…Read more
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233Review Don Ross, James Ladyman, Harold Kincaid (eds.): Scientific Metaphysics (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 68 (3): 426-430. 2014.
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132Invariance, Structure, Measurement – Eino Kaila and the History of Logical EmpiricismTheoria 78 (4): 358-383. 2012.Eino Kaila's thought occupies a curious position within the logical empiricist movement. Along with Hans Reichenbach, Herbert Feigl, and the early Moritz Schlick, Kaila advocates a realist approach towards science and the project of a “scientific world conception”. This realist approach was chiefly directed at both Kantianism and Poincaréan conventionalism. The case in point was the theory of measurement. According to Kaila, the foundations of physical reality are characterized by the existence …Read more
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14Torsten Wilholt: Die Freiheit der Forschung: Begrenzungen und BegründungenJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 44 (2): 397-399. 2013.Torsten Wilholt’s book on the freedom of research is a remarkable contribution to a long-standing debate over an issue which is becoming increasingly important today. As Wilholt points out in the preface, the topic ‘freedom of research’ has a twofold face: On the one hand, freedom of research is the presupposition of an engaged and unprejudiced search for knowledge; on the other hand, it implies the risk of borderless and ‘untamed’ research. In considering this contradiction, Wilholt makes recou…Read more
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7Fiktion Und Fiktionalismus - Beiträge Zu Hans Vaihingers "Philosophie des Als Ob" (edited book)Königshausen & Neumann. 2014.
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9Phänomenologie, Neukantianismus und logischer Empirismus waren die dominanten Strömungen in der deutschsprachigen theoretischen Philosophie des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts. Die Beziehungen dieser drei philosophischen Positionen untereinander wurden in der philosophiehistorischen Forschung bisher allenfalls in Teilkonstellationen untersucht. Der Band liefert erstmals eine Zusammenschau dieser drei Positionen. Die Autoren gehen in ihren Aufsätzen der Frage auf den Grund, wie die Beziehungen zueinander…Read more
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26Carsten Seck: Theorien und tatsachen. Eine untersuchung zur wissenschaftstheoriegeschichtlichen charakteristik der theoretischen philosophie Des frühen Moritz Schlick (review)Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 40 (2): 399-401. 2009.
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20Heinz Steinert: Max Webers unwiderlegbare Fehlkonstruktionen. Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des KapitalismusPhilosophischer Literaturanzeiger 67 (4): 369-372. 2014.
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17Physics without Pictures? The Ostwald-Boltzmann Controversy, and Mach's (Unnoticed) Middle-WayIn M. Heidelberger F. Stadler (ed.), Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, Springer. pp. 185-198. 2002.It is a common view in cognitive psychology that there is a fundamental difference between what may be called descriptive information, on the one hand, and depictive information, on the other. While the first kind of information is — ideally spoken — non-pictorial and usually equated with the content of a proposition, the second kind of information is pictorial by defmition and accordingly equated with the content of a mental image. Granting the correctness of this distinction, cognitive scienti…Read more
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758Dogmenfreiheit als Prinzip? Neuere Literatur zum logischen EmpirismusZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 65 (1): 96-114. 2011.
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25Michael Esfeld und Christian Sachse: Kausale Strukturen. Einheit und Vielfalt in der Natur und den Naturwissenschaften (review)Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 42 (2): 415-419. 2011.
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30Friedrich Stadler (Hg.): Vertreibung, Transformation und Rückkehr der Wissenschaftstheorie. Am Beispiel von Rudolf Carnap und Wolfgang Stegmüller (review)Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 43 (1): 203-206. 2012.
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16Volker Kruse, Uwe Barrelmeyer: Max Weber. Eine EinführungPhilosophischer Literaturanzeiger 65 (4): 312-318. 2012.
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28Is Logical Empiricism Compatible with Scientific Realism?In Maria Carla Galavotti, Elisabeth Nemeth & Friedrich Stadler (eds.), Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, Springer. pp. 249-262. 2014.Scientific realism is the view that the theoretical entities of science exist. Atoms, forces, electromagnetic fields, and so on, are not merely instruments for organizing observational data but are real and causally effective. This view seems to be hardly compatible with the logical empiricist agenda: As common wisdom has it, logical empiricism is mainly characterized by a strong verification criterion of meaning, i.e., by the project of defining the meaning of theoretical terms by virtue of the…Read more
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66Realism as a Problem of Language–From Carnap to Reichenbach and KailaIn R. Creath (ed.), Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, Springer Verlag. pp. 37--56. 2012.Rudolf Carnap’s role in the debate over scientific realism is fairly unclear. In a certain sense, Carnap must be regarded as the one who rendered the whole issue irrelevant. However, it cannot be ignored that Carnap sometimes spoke of himself as an ‘empirical realist.’ So the question to be answered is: in what sense, if at all, did Carnap play a constructive role in the scientific realism debate. It is the aim of the present paper to tackle this question by investigating the relationship betwee…Read more
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