Adaptation of Scientific Knowledge to an Intellectual Environment. Paul Forman's "Weimar Culture, Causality, and Quantum Theory, 1918?1927": Analysis and Criticism

DOI10.1111/J.1600-0498.1984.TB00754.XzbMATH Open0536.01037OpenAlexW2007287116MaRDI QIDQ3320337FDOQ3320337

Authors: Peter Kraft, Peter Kroes 

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Centaurus (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0498.1984.tb00754.x

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zbMATH Keywords

causalityquantum theoryWeimar culture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Sociology (and profession) of mathematics (01A80) History of quantum theory (81-03)

Cites Work

• Wittgenstein and Mannheim on the sociology of mathematics

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• Adolf von Harnack's ``last publication ``Steps of scientific understanding (1930), and a subsequent discussion on ``Changes in the estimation of science
• Weimar culture and quantum mechanics. Selected papers by Paul Forman and contemporary perspectives on the Forman thesis.

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