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Umfang: 1 online resource

ISBN: 0-262-36383-6 , 0-262-36384-4

Serie: Transformations : studies in the history of science and technology

Inhalt: "Exhaustive history of Helmholtz's work on the conservation of energy and its broad acceptance"--

Anmerkung: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions -- Introduction -- 1. Helmholtz's Self-Described Principal Concerns -- The Impossibility of a Perpetuum Mobile -- Heat as a Form of Motion-Including a Molecular-Mechanical Ontology and a Reductionist Physiology -- The Source of Animal Heat -- The Illegitimacy of a Vital Force -- Rational Mechanics and the Conservation of Vis Viva -- Causality, Epistemology, and the Nature of Force -- 2. The Broader Context -- Chemical and Physical Equivalents -- The Nature of Heat -- The Source of Animal Heat-and Motion -- The Role and Legitimacy of a Vital Force -- The Steam Engine as Metaphor -- Rational Mechanics and the Conservation of Vis Viva -- From Leibniz to Daniel Bernoulli -- From d'Alembert to Duhamel -- The Relationship of Mechanics to Physics -- The Impossibility (or Not) of Perpetual Motion and of the Indefinite Creation of Force -- Causality, Epistemology, and the Nature of Force -- The Changing Character of Physiology -- 3. More Immediate Contexts: Johannes Müller and Justus Liebig -- 4. The Problematic Introduction to On the Conservation of Force and the Question of Kantian Influence -- 5. The Emergence of Helmholtzian Conservation of Force -- 6. What Helmholtz Believed He Had Accomplished -- 7. The Reception of On the Conservation of Force: The First Ten Years -- Immediate and Local Responses -- The Situation in Königsberg -- German Physiologists' Responses -- Responses Farther Afield: Danish and Dutch Scientists -- Focused Responses for Broader German and Danish Audiences -- Helmholtz among the British -- Helmholtz and William Thomson -- Helmholtz and Macquorn Rankine -- Other British Connections and Mutual Influences -- 8. Helmholtz and the Conservation of Force in Poggendorff's Annalen through 1865 and in the Fortschritte der Physik through 1867. , 9. Helmholtz's Place in the Acceptance of the Conservation of Energy -- Helmholtz's Terminology over Time -- Helmholtz's Presentation of the Conservation of Energy over Time -- Helmholtz's Low Public Profile in the Late 1850s -- Helmholtz Acquires a Place in the Popularization of the Conservation of Energy -- Citation, Engagement, and Implicit Influence, 1858-1860 -- The Conservation of Energy Becomes a Matter of Contention in Britain, 1862-1864-without Helmholtz -- The Status of the Conservation of Energy and Its Ascription to Helmholtz: Focused Critiques -- Some of Physicists' Principal Concerns, ca. 1870-1900 -- Arguments in Terms of the Impossibility of Constructing a Perpetuum Mobile -- The Relationship between the Conservation of Energy and the Conservation of Vis Viva -- The Conservation of Energy between Physics and Mechanics -- Ontological Considerations -- Methodological Considerations -- Causality and the Conservation of Energy -- Forging a Concept of Force-as-Energy -- Forces as Quantitatively Indestructible and Qualitatively Changeable -- Forces as Expendable -- Forces as Substantial Entities -- Helmholtz's Place in the Adoption of the Conservation of Energy in Textbooks and Monographs -- Works in English -- Works in German -- Works in French -- 10. Helmholtz's Relationship to Robert Mayer -- Encounters and Responses -- Methodological Issues: Mayer and Metaphysics -- Methodological Issues: Helmholtz and Mayer as Proxies -- 11. Reflections, Assessment, and Conclusions -- Historiographical Excursus: How Others Have Interpreted Helmholtz's Achievement -- Appendix: Magnus's Letter of 1858 to Alexander von Humboldt -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Historiographical Excursus. , Bibliography of Primary Sources -- Bibliography of Secondary Sources -- Index.

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0-262-04573-7

Sprache: Englisch

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Umfang: 1 online resource (320 pages) : , illustrations.

ISBN: 1-4384-6380-4

Serie: SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy

Inhalt: Through conversations with twenty-three leading Italian philosophers representing a variety of scholarly concerns and methodologies, this volume offers an informal overview of the background, breadth, and distinctiveness of contemporary Italian philosophy as a tradition. The conversations begin with general questions addressing issues of provenance, domestic and foreign influences, and lineages. Next, each scholar discusses the main tenets, theoretical originality, and timeliness of their work. The interviews conclude with thoughts about what directions each philosopher sees the discipline heading in the future. Every conversation is a testimony to the differences that characterize each thinker as unique and that invigorate the Italian philosophical landscape as a whole. The individual replies differ widely in tone, focus, and style. What emerges is a broad, deep, lively, and even witty picture of the Italian philosophical landscape in the voices of its protagonists.

Anmerkung: Front Matter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , Ethics, Passions, Practices -- , Logics of Delusion, Passions, and Time -- , Ethics, Bioethics, and Ethical Sentimentalism -- , Life, Suffering, Happiness, and Virtue -- , Truth, Figures of Truth, and Practices of Life -- , Metaphysics, Ethics, and Applied Ethics -- , History, Justice, Communities -- , Sexual Difference, Relational Space, and Embodied Singularities -- , Ontology of Contingency, Power, and Historical Space-Time -- , Philosophy of Right, Historiography, and Individuality -- , Interpretation, History, and Politics -- , Global Justice, Democracy, Uncertainty, and Incompleteness -- , Imagination, Art, Technology -- , Technology, Communication, and Aesthetics of the Sublime -- , Freedom, Guilt, Nihilism, and Tragic Thought -- , Imagination, Rituality, and Transit -- , Rationality, Sciences, Experience -- , Mathematics, Sciences, Objectivity, and System Theory -- , Mathematics, Freedom, and Conflictual Democracy -- , Science, Knowledge, Rationality, and Empirical Realism -- , Being, Nothing, Temporality, Place -- , Metaphysics, Experience, and Transcendence -- , The Absolute, Finite Beings, and Symbolic Language -- , Being, Memory, and the Present -- , Being, Becoming, and the Destiny of Truth -- , Topology, Nothingness, and the Possible God -- , Human Beings, Evil, Transcendence -- , Religious Experience, Philosophy, and Theology -- , Person, Evil, and Eschatology -- , Select Bibliography -- , Index

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 1-4384-6379-0

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9781438463803