Paul Forman’s article “Weimar Culture, Causality, and Quantum Theory, 1918-1927”
(Forman 1971) permanently changed the disciplinary landscape of the history and philosophy of
science. Commonly called the Forman thesis, it profoundly affected the work of a generation of
historians and philosophers of physics. As a classic essay in the “externalist” history of science
(so the paper is usually read), it contributed just as significantly to the appeal of the new
sociology of scientific knowledge. It helped define the cultural history of science that spread
through the field in the 1980s and 1990s, and it has been a touchstone for general historians of
Germany and continental Europe seeking contact with science.
To download the article click on the link below:
http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/akojevnikov/FormanAgenda.pdf
To download the article click on the link below:
http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/akojevnikov/FormanAgenda.pdf
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