An authoritative exposition of the theory of relativity, this volume is the work of the leader of the famed Vienna Circle, Moritz Schlick. It offers an accessible approach to the physical doctrines of the special and general theories of relativity, with particular focus on the theories’ philosophic significance.Beginning with an overview of the importance of the Einsteinian theory to the realm of physics, the author proceeds to explain the special principle of relativity, the geometrical relativity of space, the mathematical formulation of spatial relativity, the inseparability of geometry and physics in experience, and the relativity of motion and its connection with inertia and gravitation. Additional topics include the general postulate of relativity and the measure-determinations of the space-time continuum, enunciation and significance of the fundamental law of the new theory, the finiteness of the universe, and the relation of the relativity theory of philosophy.Both as a clear, nonmathematical introduction to a complex subject and a definition of the theories’ philosophical ramifications, this book is outstanding. It will benefit teachers and students of philosophy and physics, along with anyone else who wants a better understanding of the ideas behind Einsteinian physics.

Space and Time in Contemporary Physics: An Introduction to the Theory of Relativity and Gravitation

Science & Math

Schlick, Moritz

Physics

Dover Publications

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Space And Time In Contemporary Physics: An Introduction To The Theory Of Relativity And Gravitation (1920)

Kessinger Publishing

Ethics and the Will: Essays (Vienna Circle Collection)

The contribution made by the Vienna Circle to ethics and the philosophy of action is increasingly being recognized. Here two previously unpublished pieces by Moritz Schlick and his pupil Josef Schächter set the scene, showing how ethics is not dependent on metaphysics but does require a sensitivity to strata of language other than that of science. Schächter (author of Prolegomena to a Critical Grammar, also in the VCC, and now doyen of educational philosophers in Israel) further develops this ethical theme in a too little known study of pessimistic dicta that he published in 1938. He succeeds (without ever assenting to it) in giving sense to the idea that it were better for a man never to have been born. The bulk of the book is devoted to two works by Friedrich Waismann, probably written not long after his emigration to England, also in 1938. There are a paper on ethics and science, which defends the Wittgensteinian view that morality is something one cannot defend, but only profess, and (itself more than half the volume) a treatise on will and motive, where the influence of Wittgenstein is mediated by that of Ryle and where many points in modern theory of action are anticipated with the author's usual sensitivity both to language and to the complexity of the human situation. (Joachim Schulte recently edited these two works in the original German, otherwise they have remained unpublished). This valuable addition to the VCC should illuminate both the history of the Circle and the kind of reflection on language and action which dominates the practical philosophy of our own day.

Ethics and the Will: Essays (Vienna Circle Collection, 21)

History

Waismann, Friedrich

Schächter, Josef

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Springer

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Logical Empiricism at Its Peak : Schlick, Carnap, and Neurath (Science and Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Basic Works of Logical Empiricism)

Carnap, Rudolf

Neurath, Maria

Reference

Routledge

First published in Germany in 1918, this acutely reasoned treatise attacks many of philosophy’s contemporary sacred cows, including the concept of metaphysics and Kant’s arguments for synthetic a priori knowledge. The book expounds most of the doctrines that would later be identified with the classical period” of the Vienna Circle. Unlike many of his peers, Schlick displays a detailed and sensitive knowledge of the traditions he criticizes, displayed here in the chief work of this pioneering Viennese philosopher.

General Theory of Knowledge (Library of Exact Philosophy)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Open Court

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Brose, Henry Leopold

Legare Street Press

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Nabu Press

Space And Times In Contemporary Physics

Sagwan Press

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