Boris Hessen: Physics and Philosophy in the Soviet Union, 1927-1931
Broschiertes Buch

Boris Hessen: Physics and Philosophy in the Soviet Union, 1927-1931

Neglected Debates on Emergence and Reduction

Herausgegeben: Talbot, Chris; Pattison, Olga;Übersetzung: Talbot, Chris; Pattison, Olga
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This book presents key works of Boris Hessen, outstanding Soviet philosopher of science, available here in English for the first time. Quality translations are accompanied by an editors' introduction and annotations. Boris Hessen is known in history of science circles for his "Social and Economic Roots of Newton's Principia" presented in London (1931), which inspired new approaches in the West. As a philosopher and a physicist, he was tasked with developing a Marxist approach to science in the 1920s. He studied the history of physics to clarify issues such as reductionism and causality as they...