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Theory of Probability
Reichenbach started down this trail with his doctorate thesis of probability, of which no one would publish as a whole. In 1916 he went and got each part of his paper confirmed by individuals, one for the mathematical part and one for the philosophical part. This wasn't the end of his journey, in 1949 he had his book published. It contained essays that he had written from the early 1930s on probability. His papers received much criticism from other respected philosophers, namely Karl Popper. -
Relativity
In 1917 and 1918, Reichenbach attended Albert Einstein's lectures on relativity, which in turn led him to publish his first of four 'The Theory of Relativity and A Priori Knowledge' in 1920. In his book he tries to bring more into focus which doctrines of neo-Kantian that should be kept and studied and others that he deemed unnecessary. In 'Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosphy', it describes Reichenbach's book as more of addressing "epistemological issues.. rather than issues about physics..". -
America and Quantum Mechanics
After his five year contract with the Turkish, he came to the United States and was hired as a professor at the University of California. He began working on one of his major works of quantum mechanics, and it was published in 1944. Though he was not the first to introduce a three-valued method, he explained his in more detail, his own three-valued logic, "True, Indeterminate, and False". Of which he believed his audience should especially pay attention to his indeterminate value. -
Summary of His Life
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Direction of Time
In 1925, he wrote a paper of time. He argued on the physical level of asymmetry as compared to the psychological aspect of which he agreed on. This paper led him to turn it in a book. In his book he describes three accounts of the direction of time. He had almost completed his work at the time of his death in 1953, where his final chapter was going to describe the "issues of a specific physical explanation of the psychological asymmetry, and...a changing psychological present-- a moving"now"". -
His Major Works
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Citations
- Glymour, Clark and Eberhardt, Frederick, "Hans Reichenbach", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2016 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2016/entries/reichenbach/.
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Hans Reichenbach", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
