Between Rationalism and Empiricism Selected Papers in the Philosophy
Erhard Scheibe is one of the most outstanding German philosophers of science. He has written extensively on all the problems that confront the philosophy of mathematics and physics: rationalism versus empiricism, the laws of nature, and reductionism. He h
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Erhard Scheibe
Between Rationalism and Empiricism Selected Papers in the Philosophy of Physics Edited by Brigitte Falkenburg
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ISBN 978-1-4612-6555-9 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4613-0183-7
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data. Scheibe, Erhard. Between rationalism and empiricism: selected papers in the philosophy of physicsl Erhard Scheibe; edited by Brigitte Falkenburg. p.cm. Includes bibliol!raphical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4612-6555-9 (alk. paper) 1. Physics-Philosophy. I. Falkenburg, Brigitte, 1953- II. Title. QC6.2.S342001 530'.01-dc21
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Preface
For a number of decades, Erhard Scheibe has been Germany's preeminent philosopher of physics. His work took starting points that where different from those of the empiricist philosophy of science, founded by the Vienna Circle, which subsequently moved to the United States with Carnap and Reichenbach, and was finally reimported by Stegmuller into the German-speaking countries after World War II. Scheibe's ceuvre, by contrast, continues the rationalist tradition of philosophy in which modern physics has been rooted since Descartes. At its center are the conceptual breaks in the foundations of modern physics which shaped the 20th century philosophy of science. Following his studies in Gottingen where he earned a Ph.D. in mathematics, Erhard Scheibe in 1957 became an assistant of Carl Friedrich von Weizsiicker in Hamburg. There, in 1963, he achieved his "Habilitation" with a study of the philosophical problems of quantum mechanics (Die kontingenten Aussagen in der Physik, Atheniium: Frankfurt am Main 1964). As professor of philosophy in Gotti
