World Views and Scientific Discipline Formation

World Views and Scientific Discipline Formation

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Edited by William R. Woodward and Robert S. Cohen
The various efforts to develop a Marxist philosophy of science in the one­ time 'socialist' countries were casualties of the Cold War. Even those who were in no way Marxists, and those who were undogmatic in their Marxisms, now confront a new world. All the more harsh is it for those who worked within the framework imposed upon professional philosophy by the official ideology. Here in this book, we are concerned with some 31 colleagues from the late German Democratic Republic, representative in their scholarship of the achievements of a curiously creative while dismayingly repressive period. The literature published in the GDR was blossoming, certainly in the final decade, but it developed within a totalitarian regime where personal careers either advanced or faltered through the private protection or denunciation of mentors. We will never know how many good minds did not enter the field of philosophy in the first place due to their prudent judgments that there was a virtual requirement that the candidate join the Socialist Unity (i.e. Communist) Party. Among those who started careers and were sidetracked, the record is now beginning to be revealed; and for the rest, the price of 'doing philosophy' was mostly silence in the face of harassments the likes of which make academic politics in the West seem child's play.

Contents
World Views and Scientific Discipline Formation: How East German Science Studies Contributed to the Fall of the Cultural Wall - Woodward, William R. - Seiten 1-15
On the Origin and Nature of Scientific Disciplines - Guntau, Martin (et al.) - Seiten 17-28
Relating Evolutionary Theory to the Natural Sciences - Wessel, Karl-Friedrich - Seiten 29-37
Dialectical Understanding of the Unity of Scientific Knowledge - Hörz, Herbert - Seiten 39-48
History of Science in the GDR: Institutions and Programmatic Positions - Kröber, Günter - Seiten 49-62
Historiography of Mathematics: Aims, Methods, Tasks - Wußing, Hans - Seiten 63-73
The Berlin ‘Society for Scientific Philosophy’ as Organizational form of Philosophizing in the Medium of Natural Science - Hecht, Hartmut (et al.) - Seiten 75-87
Mathematics and Ideology in Fascist Germany - Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard - Seiten 89-95
Imageless Thought or Stimulus Error? The Social Construction of Private Experience - Brock, Adrian - Seiten 97-106
The Berlin Psychological Tradition: Between Experiment and Quasi-Experimental Design, 1850–1990 - Sprung, Lothar - Seiten 107-116
Move Over Darwin: The Ontogenetic Sources of William Preyer’s Developmental Psychology - Flesher, Mary Mosher - Seiten 117-128
On the Interdisciplinary Genesis of Experimental Methods in Nineteenth-Century German Psychology - Müller, Martin - Seiten 129-140
From Boltzmann to Planck: On Continuity in Scientific Revolutions - Koch, Martin - Seiten 141-150
Walther Nernst and Quantum Theory - Barkan, Diana - Seiten 151-162
Historical Explanations in Modern Physics? The Lesson of Quantum Mechanics - Röseberg, Ulrich - Seiten 163-175
Fritz London and the Community of Quantum Physicists - Heims, Steve J. - Seiten 177-190
The Middle Ages: Darkness in the Sciences? - Wicklein, Gerald - Seiten 191-198
Introduction to the Basic Concepts of Communication-Oriented Science Studies - Krüger, Hans-Peter - Seiten 199-208
Philosophical Problems of Modern Psychology - Erpenbeck, John - Seiten 209-222
Neo-Kantianism and Epistemology: On the Formation of a Philosophical Discipline in Nineteenth-Century Germany - Rauh, Hans-Christoph - Seiten 223-234
The Transformation of German Philosophy in the Context of Scientific Research in the Nineteenth Century - Pester, Reinhardt - Seiten 235-