Ernst Mach: His Life, Work, and InfluenceThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972. |
Contents
Childhood | 3 |
Young Scientist | 13 |
Philosophical Development | 26 |
Prague Professor | 38 |
Machs Two Rectorates | 73 |
Early Philosophical Influence | 116 |
Educational Theory and Textbooks | 132 |
Philosophy of Science | 164 |
Philosophy | 180 |
Mach vs Boltzmann Planck Stumpf and Külpe | 204 |
Politics Russia and Vladimir Lenin | 232 |
Mach and Buddhism | 286 |
Machs Influence on Early Logical Positivism and | 300 |
Mach Finally Accept | 319 |
A Select Bibliography | 361 |
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