Publication Date
2011
Publication Place
London -
Imperial College Press ; Singapore : World Scientific, [2011]
Subject
Forman, Paul -- Influence., Science -- Philosophy -- History., Science and state -- Germany., Quantum theory -- Philosophy., Germany -- Intellectual life
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
542
Physical Dimensions
26 cm
Library
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)
Record ID
3100001~!118924~!4897
Library Location
HS-SS Stacks
Date
2011
Notes
"This book has its origin in the conference 'The Cultural Alchemy of the Exact Sciences: Revisiting the Forman Thesis', held at the University of British Columbia on 23 to 25 March 2007. ... A few papers in this volume appeared earlier in German in a special issue of the journal Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 31, no. 4 (2008)"--Page ix.. 118924. xvi, 542 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
İçindekiler
The Forman thesis : 40 years after / Cathryn Carson, Alexei Kojevnikov and Helmuth Trischler -- Cold War culture, history of science and postmodernity : engagement of an intellectual in a holistic academic environment / J.L. Heilbron -- Selected chronological bibliography of Paul Forman's scholarship -- Part I. The Forman Thesis -- Scientific internationalism and the Weimar physicists : the ideology and its manipulation in Germany after World War I / Paul Forman -- The financial support and political alignment of physicists in Weimar Germany / Paul Forman -- Weimar culture, causality, and quantum theory, 1918-27 : adaptation by German physicists and mathematicians to a hostile intellectual environment / Paul Forman -- Kausalität, Anschaulichkeit, and Individualität, or, how cultural values prescribed the character and the lessons ascribed to quantum mechanics / Paul Forman -- The reception of an acausal quantum mechanics in Germany and Britain / Paul Forman -- Part II. Quantum Physics in its Historical Contexts -- Paul Forman and the environment and practice of quantum history / David C. Cassidy -- Culture and mechanics in Germany, 1869-1918 : a sketch / Richard Staley -- The establishment of a network of reactionary physicists in the Weimar Republic / Stefan L. Wolff -- Philosophical rhetoric in early quantum mechanics 1925-27 : high principles, cultural values and professional anxieties / Alexei Kojevnikov -- 'The shackles of causality' : physics and philosophy in the Netherlands in the Interwar period / Kai Eigner and Frans van Lunteren -- Crisis, measurement problems and controversy in early quantum electrodynamics : the failed appropriation of epistemology in the second quantum generation / Anja Skaar Jacobsen -- Causality in physics and in the history of physics : a comparison of Bohm's and Forman's papers / Olival Freire Jr. -- Part III. Science and Culture: Cross-Disciplinary Debates -- Forman reformed, again / M. Norton Wise -- From Kosmos to Koralle : on the culture of science reading in Imperial and Weimar Germany / Arne Schirrmacher -- Living ambiguity : speculative bodies of science in Weimar culture / Cornelius Borck -- Science and politics : pathology in Weimar Germany (1918-33) / Cay-Rüdiger Prüll -- Jordan alias Domeier : science and cultural politics in late Weimar conservatism / Richard H. Beyler -- The causality debates of the interwar years and their preconditions : revisiting the Forman thesis from a broader perspective / Michael Stöltzner -- Modern or anti-modern science? : Weimar culture, natural science and the Heidegger-Heisenberg exchange / Cathryn Carson.
ISBN
9789814293112, 9814293113
