BY
PAUL FORMAN*
* Department of History, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627.
"It is interesting to observe that even physics, a discipline rigorously bound to the results of experiment, is led into paths which run perfectly parallel to the paths of the intel lectual movements in other areas [of modern life]/' Gustav Mie, inaugural lecture as Professor of Physics, University of Freiburg i.B., 26 January 1925.
I. Weimar Culture as a Hostile Intellectual Environment
1. As Perceived by the Physicists and Mathematicians. 8
2. As Confirmed by Other Observers. 15
3. Intellectual Allies: Vienna Circle and Bauhaus. 19
4. Educational Ideals and Reforms. 23
5. The Crisis of Wissenschaft . 26
6. Spengler's Decline of the West. 30
II. Adaptation of Ideology to the Intellectual Environment
1. Introduction . 38
2. From Positivism to Lebensphilosophie. 40
3. Capitulation to Spenglerism . 48
4. A Craving for Crises. 58
III. "Dispensing with Causality": Adaptation of Knowledge to the Intellectual Environment
1. Introduction: The Concept of Causality . 63
2. The First Intimations of an Issue, 1919-1920 . 70
3. Conversions to Acausality, 1919-1925 a. The Earliest Converts: Exner and Weyl. 74 b. 1921, Summer and Fall: von Mises, Schottky, Nernst, et al. 80 c. Later Notable Conversions: Schr?dinger and Reichenbach 87
4. Unregenerates against the Tide, 1922-1923 . 91
5. The Situation circa 1924 . 96
6. Causality's Last Stand, 1925-1926 . 100
7. Conclusion . 108
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https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paul_Forman2/publication/261872821_Weimar_Culture_Causality_and_Quantum_Theory_1918-1927_Adaptation_by_German_Physicists_and_Mathematicians_to_a_Hostile_Intellectual_Environment/links/0c960535b1a78a3d95000000/Weimar-Culture-Causality-and-Quantum-Theory-1918-1927-Adaptation-by-German-Physicists-and-Mathematicians-to-a-Hostile-Intellectual-Environment.pdf
Author(s): Paul Forman
Source: Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, Vol. 3 (1971), pp. 1-115
Published by: University of California Press Stable
URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27757315 .
Accessed: 02/04/2014 13:47
PAUL FORMAN*
* Department of History, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627.
"It is interesting to observe that even physics, a discipline rigorously bound to the results of experiment, is led into paths which run perfectly parallel to the paths of the intel lectual movements in other areas [of modern life]/' Gustav Mie, inaugural lecture as Professor of Physics, University of Freiburg i.B., 26 January 1925.
I. Weimar Culture as a Hostile Intellectual Environment
1. As Perceived by the Physicists and Mathematicians. 8
2. As Confirmed by Other Observers. 15
3. Intellectual Allies: Vienna Circle and Bauhaus. 19
4. Educational Ideals and Reforms. 23
5. The Crisis of Wissenschaft . 26
6. Spengler's Decline of the West. 30
II. Adaptation of Ideology to the Intellectual Environment
1. Introduction . 38
2. From Positivism to Lebensphilosophie. 40
3. Capitulation to Spenglerism . 48
4. A Craving for Crises. 58
III. "Dispensing with Causality": Adaptation of Knowledge to the Intellectual Environment
1. Introduction: The Concept of Causality . 63
2. The First Intimations of an Issue, 1919-1920 . 70
3. Conversions to Acausality, 1919-1925 a. The Earliest Converts: Exner and Weyl. 74 b. 1921, Summer and Fall: von Mises, Schottky, Nernst, et al. 80 c. Later Notable Conversions: Schr?dinger and Reichenbach 87
4. Unregenerates against the Tide, 1922-1923 . 91
5. The Situation circa 1924 . 96
6. Causality's Last Stand, 1925-1926 . 100
7. Conclusion . 108
To download the book click on the following link:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paul_Forman2/publication/261872821_Weimar_Culture_Causality_and_Quantum_Theory_1918-1927_Adaptation_by_German_Physicists_and_Mathematicians_to_a_Hostile_Intellectual_Environment/links/0c960535b1a78a3d95000000/Weimar-Culture-Causality-and-Quantum-Theory-1918-1927-Adaptation-by-German-Physicists-and-Mathematicians-to-a-Hostile-Intellectual-Environment.pdf
Author(s): Paul Forman
Source: Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, Vol. 3 (1971), pp. 1-115
Published by: University of California Press Stable
URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27757315 .
Accessed: 02/04/2014 13:47
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