Empiriokritizismus ernst mach biography

  • This chapter reconstructs the complex and diverse reception of Mach by main members of the Vienna Circle, showing the inherent pluralism.
  • Ernst Mach (1838–1916) was one of the great philosopher-scientists in the late nineteenth and early twen- tieth centuries.
  • The book Materialism and Empirio-criticism.

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    1. The Theory of Knowledge of Empirio-Criticism and of Dialectical Materialism - I

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    1. Sensations And Complexes Of Sensations[edit source]

    The fundamental premises of the theory of knowledge of Mach and Avenarius are frankly, simply and clearly expounded bygd them in their early philosophical works. To these works we shall now turn, postponing for later treatment an examination of the corrections and emendations subsequently made by these writers.

    Mach wrote in 1872:

    “The task of science can only be:

    1. To determine the laws of connection of ideas (Psychology).
    2. To discover the laws of connection of sensations (Physics).
    3. To explain the laws of connection between sensations and ideas (Psycho-physics).”[1]

    This fryst vatten quite klar.

    The subject matter of physics fryst vatten the connection between sensations and not between things or bodies, of which our sensations are the image. And in 1883, in his Mechanics, Mach

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    Ernst Mach - The Scientist as a Buddhist ?

    CHAPTER 9 ERNST MACH - THE SCIENTIST AS A BUDDHIST? by Ursula Baatz * (University of Vienna) When Heinrich Gomperz, an Austrian historian of philosophy living in the USA, entitled Ernst Mach as the "Buddha of Science" in his autobiographyl, he summarized a discussion which had begun at the tum of the century and ended in the 1920's. It was Mach's phenomenalistic approach to his Analysis of Sensations, his emphasis on the non-existence of the "Ego", which had prompted his contemporaries to compare his theory with Buddhist insights. The first translations of the Pali Canon were then available in German, and Viennese artists and intellectuals studied them for new insights. Mach did not oppose the interpretation of his adherents who claimed that he was akin to Buddhism. On the other hand, comparison between science (especially physics) and religion in whatever aspect were not a matter of inquiry among members of the

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    Ernst Mach – Life, Work, Influence [1st ed. 2019] 978-3-030-04377-3, 978-3-030-04378-0

    Table of contents :
    Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
    Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
    Only a Philosophical “Holiday Sportsman”? – Ernst Mach as a Scientist Transgressing the Disciplinary Boundaries (Friedrich Stadler)....Pages 3-21
    The Specter of “Austrian Philosophy”: Ernst Mach and a Modern Tradition of Post-Philosophy (Katherine Arens)....Pages 23-38
    Brentano’s Lectures on Positivism (1893–1894) and His Relationship to Ernst Mach (Denis Fisette)....Pages 39-50
    From Brentano to Mach. Carving Austrian Philosophy at its Joints (Guillaume Fréchette)....Pages 51-62
    Mach, Wittgenstein, Science and Logic (John Preston)....Pages 63-90
    Mach’s “Sensation”, Gomperz’s “Feeling”, and the Positivist Debate About the Nature of the Elementary Constituents of Experience. A Comparative Study in an Epistemological and Psychological Context (David Romand)....Pages 91-107
    Front Matter ....Pages 109-109
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