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Ernst Mach - a deeper look: Documents and new perspectives
 9789401127714, 9401127719, 9789401052306

Table of contents :
Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Some Biographical Documents....Pages 1-28
Ernst Mach in Prague....Pages 29-55
Ernst Mach as A Historian of Science as Seen in Book Reviews and Notes (1896 – 1932)....Pages 57-70
Mach Correspondence....Pages 71-110
Philosophical Documents....Pages 111-126
The Mach-Planck Polemics....Pages 127-150
Mach and Einstein....Pages 151-164
Mach’s Relativity vs. Einstein’s Relativity....Pages 165-182
Ernst Mach - The Scientist as a Buddhist ?....Pages 183-199
Mach’s Phenomenalism as a Link Between Physics and Psychology....Pages 201-214
Poetic Imagination and Economy: Ernst Mach as Theorist of Science....Pages 215-228
Mach’s Relativism Versus Apriorism and the Mechanistic World View....Pages 229-241
Mach’ Critique of Newtonian Mechanics....Pages 243-261
More on Mach and Einstein....Pages 263-276
Three Batches of Reasons for Mach’s Rejection of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity....Pages 277-295
Mach, Einstein, and Kuwaki....Pages 297-332
Ernst Mach’s Influence on Four Japanese Thinkers....Pages 333-361
The “Verein Ernst Mach” - What Was It Really?....Pages 363-377
The Influence of Mach’s Philosophy in Yugoslavia 1900–1941....Pages 379-402
Mach, Utrecht, and Dutch Philosophy....Pages 403-430
Back Matter....Pages 431-463

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