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Boris Hessen: Physics and Philosophy in the Soviet Union, 1927-1931: Neglected Debates on Emergence and Reduction

Boris Hessen: Physics and Philosophy in the Soviet Union, 1927-1931: Neglected Debates on Emergence and Reduction

Pattison, Olga
Talbot, Chris
Talbot, Chris

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Series: History of Physics

Astronomy & SpacePhysicsRussian History

ISBN10: 303070047X
ISBN13: 9783030700478
Publisher: Springer
Published: May 19 2022
Pages: 169
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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