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9Analogie und Quantifizierung Von Maxwell über Helmholtz zur MesstheorieIn Alina Noveanu, Dietmar Koch & Niels Weidtmann (eds.), Analogie: Zur Aktualität eines philosophischen Schlüsselbegriffs, Verlag Karl Alber. pp. 187-216. 2020.
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6Zerspaltung und Einheit: vom logischen Aufbau der Welt zum PhysikalismusIn Hans J. Dahms (ed.), Philosophie, Wissenschaft, Aufklärung: Beiträge zur Geschichte und Wirkung des Wiener Kreises, De Gruyter. pp. 144-189. 1985.
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15Contingent Laws of Nature in Émile BoutrouxIn Michael Heidelberger & Gregor Schiemann (eds.), The Significance of the Hypothetical in Natural Science, De Gruyter. pp. 99-144. 2009.In 1874, the French philosopher Émile Boutroux wrote a dissertationon the contingency of the laws of nature that highly influenced academic philosophy during the French Third Republic and led to a more hypothetical view of the natural sciences and mathematics. Boutroux took over the concept of contingency from the neo-Kantian philosopher Eduard Zeller who had insisted against Hegel on the role of contingency in history, and carried it over to nature. From this he tried to show that the science…Read more
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207Introduction: The Significance of the Hypothetical in Natural ScienceIn Michael Heidelberger & Gregor Schiemann (eds.), The Significance of the Hypothetical in Natural Science, De Gruyter. pp. 1-6. 2009.
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10Alternative Interpretationen der Repräsentationstheorie der MessungIn Georg Meggle & Ulla Wessels (eds.), Analyōmen 1 =, W. De Gruyter. pp. 310-323. 1994.
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11Helmholtz' Erkenntnis- und Wissenschaftstheorie im Kontext der Philosophie und Naturwissenschaft des 19. JahrhundertsIn Lorenz Krüger (ed.), Universalgenie Helmholtz. Rückblick nach 100 Jahren., Akademie Verlag. pp. 168-185. 1994.
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7Zur Logik Empirischer Theorien (edited book)De Gruyter. 1983.Das Buch besteht aus drei Teilen. Der erste Teil befasst sich mit der allgemeinen Struktur empirischer Theorie. Der zweite Teil beschäftigt sich mit den Problemen der Anwendung von Theorien und im dritten Teil werden Beispiele vorgestellt.
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8History of Philosophy of Science: New Trends and Perspectives. Vienna Circle Institute yearbook (9) (edited book)Springer. 2002.This volume includes recent contributions to the philosophy of science from a historical point of view and of the highest topicality: the range of the topics covers all fields in the philosophy of the science provided by authors from around the world focusing on ancient, modern and contemporary periods in the development of the science philosophy. This proceedings is for the scientific community and students at graduate level as well as postdocs in this interdisciplinary field of research.
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6Zur logischen Rekonstruktion wissenschaftlichen Wandels am Beispiel der „Ohm’schen Revolution“In Michael Heidelberger & Wolfgang Balzer (eds.), Zur Logik Empirischer Theorien, De Gruyter. pp. 281-303. 1983.
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Experimentation and instrumentationIn D. Borchert (ed.), Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Macmillan Reference. pp. 10--12. 2006.
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Force, law, and experiment: The evolution of helmholtz's philosophy of scienceIn David Cahan (ed.), Hermann Von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Science, University of California Press. pp. 461-497. 1993.
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505Hermann von Helmholtz, Philosophische und populärwissenschaftliche Schriften. 3 Bände. (edited book)Meiner. 2017.Aus dem vielfältigen Werk von Hermann von Helmholtz versammelt diese Ausgabe die im engeren Sinne philosophischen Abhandlungen, vor allem zur Wissenschaftsphilosophie und Erkenntnistheorie, sowie Vorträge und Reden, bei denen der Autor seine Ausnahmestellung im Wissenschaftsbetrieb nutzte, um die Wissenschaften und ihre Institutionen in der bestehenden Form zu repräsentieren und zu begründen. Ein Philosoph wollte Helmholtz nicht sein, aber er legte der philosophischen Reflexion wissenschaftlich…Read more
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20Aspects of Current History of 19TH Century Philosophy of ScienceIn F. Stadler, D. Dieks, W. Gonzales, S. Hartmann, T. Uebel & M. Weber (eds.), The Present Situation in the Philosophy of Science, Springer. pp. 67--74. 2010.
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11Schwerpunkt: zum Wandel der Wissenschaftsauffassung im Späten 19. Jahrhundert: Hermann von Helmholtz'Erkenntnistheorie in der DiskussionDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 43 (5): 815-817. 1995.
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5Naturphilosophie refers to the philosophy of nature prevalent especially in German phi- losophy, science and literary movements from around 1790 to about 1830. It pleaded for an organic and dynamic worldview as an alternative to the atomist and mechanist outlook of modern science. Against the Cartesian dualism of matter and mind which had given way to the mechanist materialism of the French Encyclopedists, Spinoza’s dual aspect theory of mind and matter as two modes of a single substance was fav…Read more
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7Ergänzende LiteraturangabenIn Michael Heidelberger & Wolfgang Balzer (eds.), Zur Logik Empirischer Theorien, De Gruyter. pp. 20-23. 1983.
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311The Significance of the Hypothetical in Natural Science (edited book)De Gruyter. 2009.How was the hypothetical character of theories of experience thought about throughout the history of science? The essays cover periods from the middle ages to the 19th and 20th centuries. It is fascinating to see how natural scientists and philosophers were increasingly forced to realize that a natural science without hypotheses is not possible.
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74From neo-kantianism to critical realism: Space and the mind-body problem in riehl and SchlickPerspectives on Science 15 (1): 26-48. 2007.This article deals with Moritz Schlick's critical realism and its sources that dominated his philosophy until about 1925. It is shown that his celebrated analysis of Einstein's relativity theory is the result of an earlier philosophical discussion about space perception and its role for the theory of space. In particular, Schlick's "method of coincidences" did not owe anything to "entirely new principles" based on the work of Einstein, Poincaré or Hilbert, as claimed by Michael Friedman, but was…Read more
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University TübingenDepartment of Philosophy
Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München
Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Study of Religion
PhD, 1978
Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany