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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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202Introduction: 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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14Origins of Logical Empiricism (review)Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 6 307-311. 1999.Alan Richardson, one of the editors of the present volume, dryly remarks in a footnote to the introduction: “Logical empiricism remains alive in philosophical memory chiefly by the significance of its death.” I think that this pertinent paradox can be enlarged to generally characterise the relation of present-day philosophy of science to logical empiricism : the more philosophy of science has struggled in the past to distance itself from central tenets of the movement of LE, the more it had to r…Read more
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2Um die Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts tritt die Sinnesphysiologie in eine neue Phase ein. Sie löst sich allmählich von der akademischen Philosophie und bildet sich zu einer professionellen experimentellen Disziplin aus. Trotzdem ist die Philosophie aber nicht völlig aus dem Spiel; es kommt vielmehr zu einem Wettstreit physiologischer Schulen innerhalb der Physiologie selbst um ihre impliziten philosophischen Anschauungen. Außerdem liefern sich die längst etablierte Disziplinen der Physik, Physiologi…Read more
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48The Probabilistic Revolution, Volume 1 (edited book)Mit Press: Cambridge. 1987.Preface to Volumes 1 and 2 Lorenz Krüger xv Introduction to Volume 1 Lorraine J. Daston 1 I Revolution 1 What Are Scientific Revolutions? Thomas S. Kuhn 7 2 Scientific Revolutions, Revolutions in Science, and a Probabilistic Revolution 1800-1930 I. Bernard Cohen 23 3 Was There a Probabilistic Revolution 1800-1930? Ian Hacking 45 II Concepts 4 The Slow Rise of Probabilism: Philosophical Arguments in the Nineteenth Century Lorenz Krüger 59 5 The Decline of the Laplacian Theory of Probability: A St…Read more
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Criticism of positivism : Emile Meyerson and Hélène MetzgerCorpus: Revue de philosophie 8 151-160. 1988.
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Wie das Leib-Seele Problem in den Logischen Empirismus kamE-Journal Philosophie der Psychologie 2. 2005.
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67Applying models in fluid dynamicsInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 20 (1). 2006.The following article treats the 'applicational turn' of modern fluid dynamics as it set in at the beginning of the 20th century with Ludwig Prandtl's concept of the boundary layer. It seeks to show that there is much more to applying a theory in a highly mathematical field like fluid dynamics than deriving a special case from a general explanatory theory under particular antecedent conditions. In Prandtl's case, the decisive move was to introduce a model that provided a physical/causal concepti…Read more
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42Some intertheoretic relations between ptolemean and copernican astronomyErkenntnis 10 (3). 1976.
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57In this paper, I would like to show that considering technological models as they arise in engineering disciplines can greatly enrich the philosophical perspective on models. In fluid mechanics, (at least) three types of models are distinguished: mathematical, computer and physical models. Very often, the choice of a particular mathematical, computer or physical model highly affects the type of solutions and the computational time needed for it. Technological models not only aim at a correct des…Read more
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2Wenn hier Fechners Philosophie als „wissenschaftlich-philosophische Weltauffassung“ bezeichnet wird, dann soll damit gesagt werden, dass Fechner mit seiner Philosophie einen wissenschaftlichen Anspruch verfolgt hat und dass sie tatsächlich auf einem weltanschauungsfreien Fundament ruht. Ich möchte sogar so weit gehen zu behaupten, dass Fechner damit zur Tradition der „wissenschaftlichen Philosophie“ des 19. Jahrhunderts zu rechnen ist, deren folgenreichstes späteres Produkt im 20. Jahrhundert de…Read more
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6EinleitungIn Michael Heidelberger & Wolfgang Balzer (eds.), Zur Logik Empirischer Theorien, De Gruyter. pp. 1-19. 1983.
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35Beziehungen zwischen Sinnesphysiologie und Philosophie im 19. JahrhundertIn H. J. Sandkühler (ed.), Philosophie Und Wissenschaften, Peter Lang. pp. 37--58. 1997.
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443The mind-body problem in the origin of logical empiricism: Herbert Feigl and psychophysical parallelismIn Paolo Parrini, Wes Salmon & Merrilee Salmon (eds.), Cogprints, Pittsburgh University Pres. pp. 233--262. 2001.In the 19th century, "Psychophysical Parallelism" was the most popular solution of the mind-body problem among physiologists, psychologists and philosophers. (This is not to be mixed up with Leibnizian and other cases of "Cartesian" parallelism.) The fate of this non-Cartesian view, as founded by Gustav Theodor Fechner, is reviewed. It is shown that Feigl's "identity theory" eventually goes back to Alois Riehl who promoted a hybrid version of psychophysical parallelism and Kantian mind-body theo…Read more
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139Origins of the logical theory of probability: Von Kries, Wittgenstein, WaismannInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 15 (2). 2001.The physiologist and neo-Kantian philosopher Johannes von Kries (1853-1928) wrote one of the most philosophically important works on the foundation of probability after P.S. Laplace and before the First World War, his Principien der Wohrscheinlich-keitsrechnung (1886, repr. 1927). In this book, von Kries developed a highly original interpretation of probability, which maintains it to be both logical and objectively physical. After presenting his approach I shall pursue the influence it had on Lu…Read more
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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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University TübingenDepartment of Philosophy
Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München
Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Study of Religion
PhD, 1978
Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany