03302nam a22004455i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100020001900118024003500137082001200172100003200184245019000216264004600406300002100452336002600473337002600499338003600525347002400561490003300585505051000618520126601128650002602394650002202420650002602442650002502468650002202493650001602515650002602531650002402557650002702581650002402608710003402632773002002666776003602686830003302722856010102755978-1-4020-5630-7DE-He21320260521092126.0cr nn 008mamaa100301s2009    ne |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a9781402056307  a997814020563077 a10.1007/978-1-4020-5630-72doi04a1132231 aSchiemann, Gregor.eeditor.10aHermann von Helmholtz's Mechanism: The Loss of Certaintyh[electronic resource] :bA Study on the Transition from Classical to Modern Philosophy of Nature /cedited by Gregor Schiemann. 1aDordrecht :bSpringer Netherlands,c2009.  bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aArchimedes,x1385-0180 ;v170 aMechanism Between the Classical and the Modern Conception of Science -- The Conception of Mechanism -- The Classical Conception of Science -- Three Traditions in Mechanism -- Contours of Modern Philosophy of Nature -- Helmholtz's Mechanism at the Dawn of Modernity -- Helmholtz, a Bildungsbürger, Scientist, and Research Strategist -- Helmholtz's Classical Mechanism -- The Hypothetization of Helmholtz's Mechanism -- Conditions and Causes for the Change in Helmholtz's Conception of Science and Nature.  aTwo seemingly contradictory tendencies have accompanied the development of the natural sciences in the past 150 years. On the one hand, the natural sciences have been instrumental in effecting a thoroughgoing transformation of social structures and have made a permanent impact on the conceptual world of human beings. This historical period has, on the other hand, also brought to light the merely hypothetical validity of scientific knowledge. As late as the middle of the 19th century the truth-pathos in the natural sciences was still unbroken. Yet in the succeeding years these claims to certain knowledge underwent a fundamental crisis. For scientists today, of course, the fact that their knowledge can possess only relative validity is a matter of self-evidence. The present analysis investigates the early phase of this fundamental change in the concept of science through an examination of Hermann von Helmholtz's conception of science and his mechanistic interpretation of nature. Helmholtz (1821-1894) was one of the most important natural scientists in Germany. The development of this thought offers an impressive but, until now, relatively little considered report from the field of the experimental sciences chronicling the erosion of certainty. 0aPHILOSOPHY (GENERAL). 0aSCIENCExHISTORY. 0aPHILOSOPHY OF NATURE. 0aSCIENCExPHILOSOPHY. 0aPHYSICSxHISTORY.14aPHILOSOPHY.24aPHILOSOPHY OF NATURE.24aHISTORY OF SCIENCE.24aPHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE.24aHISTORY OF PHYSICS.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer eBooks08iPrinted edition:z9781402056291 0aArchimedes,x1385-0180 ;v1740uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5630-7zVer el texto completo en las instalaciones del CICY