Boris Hessen: Neglected Debates on Emergence and Reduction (1st ed. 2021) (History of Physics)

By: Chris Talbot and Olga Pattison

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Synopsis: 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 applied to new developments. With the philosophers called the “Dialecticians”, his debates with the opposing “Mechanists” on the issue of emergence are still worth studying and largely ignored in the many recent works on this subject. Taken as a whole, the book is a goldmine of insights into both the foundations of physics and Soviet history.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783030700454
Related ISBNs:: 9783030700447
Publisher:: Springer International Publishing
Date of Addition:: 06/17/21
Copyrighted By:: The Editor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Science, Philosophy, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Chris Talbot
Edited by:: Olga Pattison
Translator:: Chris Talbot
Translator:: Olga Pattison