World Views and Scientific Discipline Formation: Science Studies in the German Democratic Republic Papers from a German-American Summer Institute, 1988

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
World Views and Scientific Discipline Formation: How East German Science Studies Contributed to the Fall of the Cultural Wall....Pages 1-15
On the Origin and Nature of Scientific Disciplines....Pages 17-28
Relating Evolutionary Theory to the Natural Sciences....Pages 29-37
Dialectical Understanding of the Unity of Scientific Knowledge....Pages 39-48
History of Science in the GDR: Institutions and Programmatic Positions....Pages 49-62
Historiography of Mathematics: Aims, Methods, Tasks....Pages 63-73
The Berlin ‘Society for Scientific Philosophy’ as Organizational form of Philosophizing in the Medium of Natural Science....Pages 75-87
Mathematics and Ideology in Fascist Germany....Pages 89-95
Imageless Thought or Stimulus Error? The Social Construction of Private Experience....Pages 97-106
The Berlin Psychological Tradition: Between Experiment and Quasi-Experimental Design, 1850–1990....Pages 107-116
Move Over Darwin: The Ontogenetic Sources of William Preyer’s Developmental Psychology....Pages 117-128
On the Interdisciplinary Genesis of Experimental Methods in Nineteenth-Century German Psychology....Pages 129-140
From Boltzmann to Planck: On Continuity in Scientific Revolutions....Pages 141-150
Walther Nernst and Quantum Theory....Pages 151-162
Historical Explanations in Modern Physics? The Lesson of Quantum Mechanics....Pages 163-175
Fritz London and the Community of Quantum Physicists....Pages 177-190
The Middle Ages: Darkness in the Sciences?....Pages 191-198
Introduction to the Basic Concepts of Communication-Oriented Science Studies....Pages 199-208
Philosophical Problems of Modern Psychology....Pages 209-222
Neo-Kantianism and Epistemology: On the Formation of a Philosophical Discipline in Nineteenth-Century Germany....Pages 223-234
The Transformation of German Philosophy in the Context of Scientific Research in the Nineteenth Century....Pages 235-246
Reform Efforts of Logic at Mid-Nineteenth Century in Germany....Pages 247-258
August Weismann: One of the First Synthetic Theorists of Evolutionary Biology....Pages 259-267
Darwin and the German Theologians....Pages 269-278
Two Faces of Biologism: Some Reflections on a Difficult Period in the History of Biology in Germany....Pages 279-291
What Keeps a Species Together?....Pages 293-298
The Training in Germany of English-Speaking Chemists in the Nineteenth Century and its Profound Influence in America and Britain....Pages 299-308
Science and Practice in German Agriculture: Justus Von Liebig, Hermann Von Liebig, and the Agricultural Experiment Stations....Pages 309-320
Things are Seldom What they Seem: The Story of Non-Phosphorylating Glycolysis....Pages 321-327
Goethe’s Morphology of Stones: Between Natural History and Historical Geology....Pages 329-338
The Philosophy of Living Things: Schelling’s Naturphilosophie as a Transition to the Philosophy of Identity....Pages 339-350
A New Correspondence of the Philosopher F. W. J. Schelling....Pages 351-356
The Influence of Jakob Friedrich Fries on Matthias Schleiden....Pages 357-365
The Geographical Vision and the Popular Order of Disciplines, 1848–1870....Pages 367-376
Knowledge Transfer in the Nineteenth Century: Young, Navier, Roebling, and the Brooklyn Bridge....Pages 377-386
Soviet-German Scientific Relations before World War II: Fruitful Cooperation in Different Social Orders....Pages 387-399
Bourgeois Berlin Salons: Meeting Places for Culture and the Sciences....Pages 401-414
Max Delbrück: A Physicist in Biology....Pages 415-422
‘Nobody can Become a Real Engineer Who Has Not Already Become a Whole Person’....Pages 423-429
Back Matter....Pages 431-471