Ernst Mach – Life, Work, Influence

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
 Only a Philosophical “Holiday Sportsman”? – Ernst Mach as a Scientist Transgressing the Disciplinary Boundaries  (Friedrich Stadler)....Pages 3-21
 The Specter of “Austrian Philosophy”: Ernst Mach and a Modern Tradition of Post-Philosophy  (Katherine Arens)....Pages 23-38
 Brentano’s Lectures on Positivism (1893–1894) and His Relationship to Ernst Mach  (Denis Fisette)....Pages 39-50
 From Brentano to Mach. Carving Austrian Philosophy at its Joints  (Guillaume Fréchette)....Pages 51-62
 Mach, Wittgenstein, Science and Logic  (John Preston)....Pages 63-90
 Mach’s “Sensation”, Gomperz’s “Feeling”, and the Positivist Debate About the Nature of the Elementary Constituents of Experience. A Comparative Study in an Epistemological and Psychological Context  (David Romand)....Pages 91-107
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 Ernst Mach: Science and Buddhism. A Misunderstanding Under Globalization’s Signature  (Ursula Baatz)....Pages 111-122
 Some Remarks on Mach’s Philosophical Doctrines  (Sandy Berkovski)....Pages 123-133
 Mach’s Post-Kantian Empiricism. For a New Concept of Givenness  (Alexandre Couture-Mingheras)....Pages 135-144
 The Transdisciplinary Legacy of Ernst Mach: From the Analysis of Sensations to the GPS Inside the Brain  (David Dahmen, Ronald Villa, René J. Campis, Eduardo Bermúdez Barrera)....Pages 145-155
 Mach’s Criticism, or a Discourse on the Method  (Elena D’Amore)....Pages 157-163
 Mach and Panqualityism  (Tomáš Hříbek)....Pages 165-176
 Can Monism be Neutral?  (Germinal Ladmiral)....Pages 177-186
 Intentionality vs. Psychophysical Identity  (Denis Seron)....Pages 187-197
 Economical Unification in Philosophy of Science Before and After Ernst Mach  (Avril Styrman)....Pages 199-211
 Talking Past Each Other: Mach and Husserl on Thought Economy  (Iulian D. Toader)....Pages 213-221
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 Appraisal and Influence of Mach’s Works in South America  (Eduardo Bermúdez Barrera, David Dahmen, René J. Campis, Ronald Villa)....Pages 225-233
 Ernst Mach in Prague and the Dawn of Gas Dynamics  (Rudolf Dvořák)....Pages 235-243
 Ernst Mach and Johannes Kessel in Prague 1871–1874  (Rüdiger Hoffmann, Lutz-Peter Löbe)....Pages 245-257
 The “Mach Argument” and its Use by Vladimir Fock to Criticize Einstein in the Soviet Union  (Jean-Philippe Martinez)....Pages 259-270
 The Scientific World-Conception in the Making: Towards the Ideological Roots of Logical Empiricism in Berlin and in Vienna  (Günther Sandner)....Pages 271-282
 Mach’s Reception in Pre-revolutionary Russia  (Daniela Steila)....Pages 283-293
 Ernst Mach as an Applicant and the Candidate secundo loco for two Professorships of Physics in Prague in 1866–67  (Emilie Těšínská)....Pages 295-307
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 Mach’s Influence on Einstein’s “Biggest Blunder” and the Consequences for Modern Cosmology  (Peter C. Aichelburg)....Pages 311-321
 “Direct Observation”: A Controversy About Ernst Mach’s and Peter Salcher’s Ballistic-Photographic Experiments  (Christoph Hoffmann)....Pages 323-331
 New Water in Old Buckets: Hypothetical and Counterfactual Reasoning in Mach’s Economy of Science  (Lydia Patton)....Pages 333-348
 Revisiting Einstein’s Happiest Thought. From the Physiology of Perception to Experimental Propositions and Principles in the History of Relativity  (Richard Staley)....Pages 349-366
 Mach and Relativity Theory: ANeverending Story in HOPOSia?  (Gereon Wolters)....Pages 367-385
 Peter Salcher – Mach’s Corresponding Collaborator  (Ana Alebic-Juretic)....Pages 387-401
 Light and Shadow – The Experimental Collaboration Between Ernst Mach and Ludwig Mach, Father and Son  (Johannes-Geert Hagmann)....Pages 403-417
 Experiment and Experience. On Ernst Mach’s Theory of Scientific Experimentation  (Eva-Maria Jung)....Pages 419-430
 Mach’s Views on Physical Space and Time and Their Grounding in Perceptual Space and Time  (Theodore L. Kneupper)....Pages 431-441
 The Discovery of the Mach Reflection Effect and Its Demonstration in an Auditorium  (Peter Krehl, Martin van der Geest)....Pages 443-469
 Ernst Mach’s Geometry of Solids  (Klaus Robering)....Pages 471-481
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 Empiricism or Pragmatism? Ernst Mach’s Ideas in America 1890–1910  (Erik C. Banks)....Pages 485-500
 Mach, Jerusalem and Pragmatism  (Thomas Uebel)....Pages 501-523
 What Does it Mean to Orient Oneself in Science? On Ernst Mach’s Pragmatic Epistemology  (Pietro Gori)....Pages 525-536
 “The Most Artistic Lesson I Ever Heard” – A Contribution to the Reflection on a Comment Made by William James Regarding a Lesson by Ernst Mach  (Mariana Valente)....Pages 537-549
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 Mach’s Educational Theory and Practice  (Michael R. Matthews)....Pages 553-570
 Transforming Thinking: Can Mach’s Pedagogy Be Replicated?  (Hayo Siemsen, Karl Hayo Siemsen)....Pages 571-600
 On the Influence of Ernst Mach on Contemporary Physics Curriculum at Schools: The Concept of Weight  (Igal Galili)....Pages 601-614
 Mach’s and Salcher’s Photographs Inspire a Multimedia Project  (Tobias Macke, Johannes Puschner, Wolfgang Schöner, Clemens Ulrich)....Pages 615-624
 Ernst Mach’s Didactics in the Context of Austrian History of Education  (Josef Pircher)....Pages 625-633
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 Mach, Duhem and the Historical Method in Philosophy of Science  (Anastasios Brenner)....Pages 637-650
 Duhem on Thought Experiments. Or: Did Duhem Really Reject Mach’s Thought Experiments?  (Marco Buzzoni)....Pages 651-662
 Auguste Comte and the Monistic Positivism of Ernst Mach  (Laurent Clauzade)....Pages 663-672
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 Proposal for a Complete Edition of Ernst Mach’s Correspondence  (Klaus Hentschel)....Pages 675-680
 Otto Blüh and Ernst Mach’s Legacy: Inheritance and Task  (Chantal Ferrer-Roca)....Pages 681-693
 Ernst Mach’s „Bekehrung“ zum Atomismus/Ernst Mach’s “Conversion” to Atomism – A Dialogue Between Mach and Popper-Lynkeus by Otto Blüh  (Chantal Ferrer-Roca)....Pages 695-707
 Correction to: Ernst Mach’s „Bekehrung“ zum Atomismus/Ernst Mach’s “Conversion” to Atomism – A Dialogue Between Mach and Popper-Lynkeus by Otto Blüh  (Chantal Ferrer-Roca)....Pages C1-C1
Back Matter ....Pages 709-741