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18Physics without Pictures?: The Ostwald-Boltzmann Controversy, and Mach’s Middle-WayVienna Circle Institute Yearbook 9 185-198. 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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15Günther Kebeck/Henning Schroll: Experimentelle ÄsthetikPhilosophischer Literaturanzeiger 64 (3): 253-258. 2011.
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10Anne Siegetsleitner: Ethik und Moral im Wiener Kreis. Zur Geschichte eines engagierten HumanismusPhilosophischer Literaturanzeiger 68 (3): 252-258. 2015.
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1702Philosophie 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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41Matthias Koßler (Hg.): Musik als Wille und Welt. Schopenhauers Philosophie der MusikPhilosophischer Literaturanzeiger 64 (4): 349-355. 2011.
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232Review 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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7Fiktion Und Fiktionalismus - Beiträge Zu Hans Vaihingers "Philosophie des Als Ob" (edited book)Königshausen & Neumann. 2014.
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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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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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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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20Heinz Steinert: Max Webers unwiderlegbare Fehlkonstruktionen. Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des KapitalismusPhilosophischer Literaturanzeiger 67 (4): 369-372. 2014.
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757Dogmenfreiheit 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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