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Ernst Mach
Bordoni, Stefano
2018
Abstract
Ernst Mach's (1838-1916) researches stemmed from two intellectual traditions: European physics of late nineteenth century, and post-Kantian German philosophy. He looked upon human thoughts and experiences as elements of the natural world: his monism or radical naturalism rested upon the intrinsic link between physics and psychology. He focused on the historical and critical analysis of physics, in order to inquire into its physiological, empirical, and logical foundations. Mach saw scientific theories as intrinsically provisional and incomplete achievements, and the history of science was the suitable cure for any dogmatic attitude. Physics and the emerging philosophy of science in the early twentieth century owed much to Mach's meta-theoretical theses and researches.
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Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Stefano Bordoni "Ernst Mach", in "APhEx 18", 2018, pp. 26
Languages
it
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