Ernst Mach - Life, Work, Influence

This edited volume features essays written in honor of Ernst Mach. It explores his life, work, and legacy. Readers will gain a better understanding of this natural scientist and scholar who made major contributions to physics, the philosophy of science, and physiological psychology.

The essays offer a critical inventory of Mach's lifework in line with state-of-the-art research and historiography. It begins with physics, where he paved the way for Einstein's Theory of Relativity. The account continues with Mach's contributions in biology, psychology, and physiology pioneering with an empiricist and gestalthaft Analysis of Sensations. Readers will also discover how in the philosophy of science he served as a model for the Vienna Circle with the Ernst Mach Society as well as paved the way for an integrated history and theory of science. Indeed, his influence extends far beyond the natural sciences -- to the Vienna Medical School and psychoanalysis (R. Bárány,J. Breuer, S. Freud), to literature (Jung Wien, R. Musil), to politics (F. Adler, Austro-Marxism and the Viennese adult education), to arts between Futurism and Minimal Art as well as to social sciences between the liberal school (J. Schumpeter, F. A. von Hayek) and empirical social research (P. Lazarsfeld und M. Jahoda).

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Chapter 1. Der Naturforscher Ernst Mach (1838 1916) als Grenzgänger und Grenzüberschreiter Zum Verhältnis von Geistes- und Naturwissenschaften aus heutiger Sicht (Friedrich Stadler).- Chapter 2. Mach's influence on Einstein's biggest blunder and the consequences for modern cosmology (Peter C. Aichelburg).- Chapter 3. Peter Salcher the Mach's corresponding collaborator (Ana Alebic-Juretic).- chapter 4. The Specter of "Austrian Philosophy": Ernst Mach and a Modern Tradition of Post-Philosophy (Katherine Arens).- Chapter 5. Empiricism or Pragmatism? Ernst Mach's Ideas in America 18901910 (Ursula Baatz).- Chapter 6. Empiricism or Pragmatism? Ernst Mach's Ideas in America 18901910 (Eric C.Banks).- Chapter 7. Some remarks on Mach's philosophical doctrines (Sandy Berkovski).- Chapter 8. Appraisal and influence of Mach's works in South America (BermúdezCampis_Dahmen_Villa).- Mach, Duhem and the Historical Method in Philosophy of Science (Anastasios Brenner).- Chapter 10. Duhem on Thought Experiments. Or: Did Duhem really reject Mach's Thought Experiments? (Marco Buzzoni).- Chapter 11. Auguste Comte and the monistic positivism of Ernst Mach (Laurent Clauzade.- Chapter 12. Mach's Post-Kantian Empiricism. For a New Concept of Givenness (Alexandre Couture-Mingheras).- Chapter 13. The Transdisciplinary Legacy of Ernst Mach (Dahmen Villa Bermúdez_Campis).- Chapter 14. Mach's criticism; or, A discourse on the method (Elena d'Amore).- Chapter 15. Ernst Mach in Prague and the dawn of gasdynamics (Rudolf Dvorak).- Chapter 16. Otto Blüh And Ernst Mach's Legacy: Inheritance And Task (Chantal Ferrer-Roca).- Chapter 17. Ernst Machs 'Bekehrung' zum Atomismus / Ernst Mach's 'Conversion' to atomism - A dialogue between Mach and Popper-Lynkeus (Otto Blüh).- Chapter 18. Introduction to the skit (Chantal Ferrer-Roca).- Chapter 19. Brentano's lectures on positivism (18931894) and his relationship to Ernst Mach (Denis Fisette).- Chapter 20. From Brentano to Mach. Carving Austrian Philosophy at Its Joints (Guillaume Fréchette).- Chapter 21. On the Influence of Ernst Mach on Contemporary Physics Curriculum at Schools: The Concept of Weight (Igal Galili).- Chapter 22. What Does It Mean to Orient Oneself in Science? On Ernst Mach's Pragmatic Epistemology (Pietro Gori).- Chapter 23. Light and shadow the experimental collaboration between Ernst Mach and Ludwig Mach, father and son (Johannes-Geert Hagmann).- Chapter 24. Proposal for a Complete Edition of Ernst Mach's Correspondence (Klaus Hentschel)- Chapter 25. Direct Observation: A Controversy About Ernst Mach's and Peter Salcher's Ballistic-Photographic Experiments.- Chapter 26. Ernst Mach and Johannes Kessel in Prague 18711874 (Rüdiger Hoffmann, Lutz-Peter Loebe).- Chapter 27. Mach and Panqualitism (Tomá Híbek).- Chapter 28. Experiment and Experience. On Ernst Mach's Theory of Scientific Experimentation (Eva-Maria Jung).- Chapter 29. Mach's Views on Physical Space and Time and their Grounding in Perceptual Space and Time (Theodore L. Kneupper).- Chapter 30. Reprint The discoveryof the Mach reflection effect and its demonstration in an auditorium (Petr O.K. Krehl).- Chapter 31. Can Monism be Neutral? (Germinal Ladmiral).- Chapter 32. The ''Mach argument'' and its use by Vladimir Fock to criticize Einstein in the Soviet Union (Jean-Philippe Martinez).- Chapter 33. Mach's Educational Theory and Practice (Michael Matthews).- Chapter 34. New Water in Old Buckets: Hypothetical and Counterfactual Reasoning in Mach's Economy of Science (Lydia Patton).- Chapter 35. Ernst Mach´s Didactics in Context of Austrian History of Education (Josef Pircher).- Chapter 36. Mach, Wittgenstein, Science and Logic (John Preston).- Chapter 37. Ernst Mach's Geometry of Solids (Klaus Robering).- Chapter 38. Mach's sensation, Gomperz's feeling, and the positivist debate about the nature of the elementary constituents of experience (David Romand).- Chapter 39. The Scientific World-Conception in the Making:Towards the Ideological Roots of Logical Empiricism in Berlin and in Vienna (Günther Sandner).- Chapter 40. Mach's and Salcher's photographs inspire a Multimedia project (Wolfgang Schöner)- Chapter 41. Intentionality vs. Psychophysical Identity (Denis Seron).- Chapter 42. Transforming thinking: Can Mach's pedagogy be replicated? (Hayo Siemsen).- Chapter 43. Revisiting Einstein's Happiest Thought. From the Physiology of Perception to Experimental Propositions and Principles in the History of Relativity (Richard Staley).- Chapter 44. Mach's Reception in Pre-Revolutionary Russia (Daniela Steila0.- Chapter 45. Economical Unification in Philosophy of Science Before and After Ernst Mach (Avril Styrman).- Chapter 46. Ernst Mach as an Applicant and the Candidate secundo loco for two Professorships of Physics in Prague in 1866-67 (Emilie Tínská).- Chapter 47. Permanence of Forms as a Principle of Rationality (Iulian Toader).- Chapter 48. Mach, Jerusalem and Pragmatism (Thomas Uebel)...