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Auguste Comte January 19, 1798 to September 5, 1857
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Auguste Comte Begins Teaching
In April 1826, Comte began teaching a Course of Positive Philosophy, he experienced a period of poor health, and he resumed teaching in 1829. -
Auguste Comte begins writing The Course
Over the course of thirteen years, he wrote six volumes. The Course of Positive Philosophy dissected the epistemological perspective of positive philosophy. -
Auguste Comte coins the term sociology
In 1838 Comte describes a science of studying society and names it sociology. Along with it, he describes the law of three stages theological, metaphysical, and positive. -
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Ernst Mach February 18, 1838 to February 19, 1916
Mach's critique of absolute space inspired Einstien to develop relativity. He was anti-metaphysical, and a monist meaning he believed we all share one perceptive reality. -
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Henri Poincare April 29, 1854 to July 17, 1912
Poincaré is best known for his critique of logicism and for his geometric conventionalism. -
Ernst Mach begins his expiremental study of sound
Between 1873 and 1893 Mach developed both methods of measurement of sound waves and propagation. -
Poincare begins teaching
After receiving his degree, Poincaré began teaching as a junior lecturer in mathematics at the University of Caen in Normandy. -
Pioncare creates a new branch of mathematics.
In 1881, Poincaré created a new branch of mathematics: qualitative theory of differential equations. He demonstrated that for certain families of equations it is possible to find important information about the solutions without having to solve the equations. -
Mach's principles of supersonics
In 1887 he established the principles of supersonics, and the mach number, speed relative to the speed of sound. -
Henri Poincaré and the three body problem
In 1889 Poincaré won a prize from the King of Sweden for a question posed by Weierstrass on the stability of the solar system, that is, the three-body problem in classical mechanics. Becoming the first person to discover a chaotic deterministic system. Proving that the problem of determinism and predictability are distinct. -
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Hans Reichenbach September 26, 1891 to April 9, 1953
Described as the greatest empiricist of the 20th century. Reichbach in response to the clash of neo-Kantian priorism and Einstein's relativity developed a scientifically inspired philosophy and a steadfast empiricist epistemology. -
Mach describes the biological origin and purpose of science.
“Here I wish simply to consider the growth of natural knowledge in the light of the theory of evolution. For knowledge, too, is a product of organic nature. And although ideas, as such, do not comport themselves in all respects like independent organic individuals, and although violent comparisons should be avoided, still if Darwin reasoned rightly, the general imprint of evolution and transformation must be noticeable in ideas also.” Ernst Mach -
Reichenbach's Axiomatization of the Theory of Relativity
The book is divided into two parts, one on special relativity and the other on general relativity. This book is his most original work, but it is flawed and suffers from his lack of familiarity with the work done by his English-speaking contemporaries. -
Hans Reichenbach Philosophy of Space and Time
In 1928 he published Philosophy of Space and Time. In this book he further developed a philosophical framework based on Relativity from Axiomatization of the Theory of Relativity. -
Riechenbach's direction of time.
Though it was published posthumously, it is one of his most well-received and influential books. It discusses why we perceive time as linearly progressing even though almost all of the physics works both forwards and backwards in time.