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Hans Reichenbach

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  • Hans Reichenbachs Birth

    Born in Germany.

  • Axiomatization of the Theory of Relativity

    Axiomatization of the Theory of Relativity
    Published in 1924, General theories of relativity from experimentally accessible causal relationships;

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    Contribution to the Philosophy of Science

    Hans Reichenbach wrote three books based on the foundation of physics, as physics is what he was most interested in. He also made lasting contributions to the study of empiricism based on a theory of probability; the logic and the philosophy of mathematics; space, time, and relativity theory; analysis of probabilistic reasoning; and quantum mechanics. Provoked the conflict between (Neo-) Kantian a priorism and Einstein's relativity of space and time.

  • The Philosophy of Space and Time

    The Philosophy of Space and Time
    Published in 1928, cs, combines an extension to spacetime theories of Helmholtz's and Poincare's conventionalism about geometry with a description of Einstein's special and general relativity theories from the point of view of the Axiomatization

  • Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (1944b)

    Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (1944b)
    Published in 1944, and is a novel 3-valued logic for quantum theory.

  • Hans Reichenbachs Death

    Hans Reichenbach passed away in Los Angeles, California at 62 years old.

  • The Direction of Time

    The Direction of Time
    Published in 1956. Addresses a long standing problem in physics and metaphysics

  • Other Major Works

    1. Atom and cosmos: the world of modern physics. G. Allen & Unwin, ltd.
    2. From Copernicus to Einstein. Dover 1980
    3. Philosophy and physics" in Faculty research lectures, 1946. University of California Press.
    4. The philosophical significance of the theory of relativity" in Schilpp, P. A., ed., Albert Einstein. Evanston: The Library of Living Philosophers.
    5. The Rise of Scientific Philosophy. 1956 The Direction of Time.

  • Sources

    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/.
    Maura Murzay https://www.iep.utm.edu/reichenb/#H5 JOC/EFR © November 2006 School of Mathematics and Statistics
    University of St Andrews, Scotland