03449nam a22004935i 4500 978-1-4020-5630-7 DE-He213 20260521092126.0 cr nn 008mamaa 100301s2009 ne | s |||| 0|eng d 9781402056307 99781402056307 10.1007/978-1-4020-5630-7 doi 113 23 Schiemann, Gregor. editor. Hermann von Helmholtz's Mechanism: The Loss of Certainty [electronic resource] : A Study on the Transition from Classical to Modern Philosophy of Nature / edited by Gregor Schiemann. Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Archimedes, 1385-0180 ; 17 Mechanism 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. Two 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. PHILOSOPHY (GENERAL). SCIENCE HISTORY. PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE. SCIENCE PHILOSOPHY. PHYSICS HISTORY. PHILOSOPHY. PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE. HISTORY OF SCIENCE. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. HISTORY OF PHYSICS. SpringerLink (Online service) Springer eBooks Printed edition: 9781402056291 Archimedes, 1385-0180 ; 17 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5630-7 Ver el texto completo en las instalaciones del CICY ZDB-2-SHU ddc ER 37294 37294 0 0 ddc 0 0 LE CICY CICY EL 2025-10-06 0 113 2025-10-06 08:45:23 2025-10-06 ER