World Views and Scientific Discipline Formation: Science Studies in the German Democratic Republic Papers from a German-American Summer Institute, 1988W.R. Woodward, Robert S. Cohen The various efforts to develop a Marxist philosophy of science in the one time 'socialist' countries were casualties of the Cold War. Even those who were in no way Marxists, and those who were undogmatic in their Marxisms, now confront a new world. All the more harsh is it for those who worked within the framework imposed upon professional philosophy by the official ideology. Here in this book, we are concerned with some 31 colleagues from the late German Democratic Republic, representative in their scholarship of the achievements of a curiously creative while dismayingly repressive period. The literature published in the GDR was blossoming, certainly in the final decade, but it developed within a totalitarian regime where personal careers either advanced or faltered through the private protection or denunciation of mentors. We will never know how many good minds did not enter the field of philosophy in the first place due to their prudent judgments that there was a virtual requirement that the candidate join the Socialist Unity (i.e. Communist) Party. Among those who started careers and were sidetracked, the record is now beginning to be revealed; and for the rest, the price of 'doing philosophy' was mostly silence in the face of harassments the likes of which make academic politics in the West seem child's play. |
Contents
HOW EAST GERMAN SCIENCE STUDIES CONTRIBUTED TO THE FALL OF THE CULTURAL WALL | 1 |
ON THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES | 17 |
RELATING EVOLUTIONARY THEORY TO THE NATURAL SCIENCES | 29 |
DIALECTICAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE UNITY OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE | 39 |
INSTITUTIONS AND PROGRAMMATIC POSITIONS | 49 |
AIMS METHODS TASKS | 63 |
THE BERLIN SOCIETY FOR SCIENTIFIC PHILOSOPHY AS ORGANIZATIONAL FORM OF PHILOSOPHIZING IN THE MEDIUM OF NATUR... | 75 |
MATHEMATICS AND IDEOLOGY IN FASCIST GERMANY | 89 |
ONE OF THE FIRST SYNTHETIC THEORISTS OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY | 259 |
DARWIN AND THE GERMAN THEOLOGIANS | 269 |
SOME REFLECTIONS ON A DIFFICULT PERIOD IN THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGY IN GERMANY | 279 |
WHAT KEEPS A SPECIES TOGETHER? | 293 |
THE TRAINING IN GERMANY OF ENGLISHSPEAKING CHEMISTS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND ITS PROFOUND INFLUENCE I... | 299 |
JUSTUS VON LIEBIG HERMANN VON LIEBIG AND THE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS | 309 |
THE STORY OF NONPHOSPHORYLATING GLYCOLYSIS | 321 |
BETWEEN NATURAL HISTORY AND HISTORICAL GEOLOGY | 329 |
IMAGELESS THOUGHT OR STIMULUS ERROR? THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF PRIVATE EXPERIENCE | 97 |
BETWEEN EXPERIMENT AND QUASIEXPERIMENTAL DESIGN 18501990 | 107 |
THE ONTOGENETIC SOURCES OF WILLIAM PREYERS DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY | 117 |
ON THE INTERDISCIPLINARY GENESIS OF EXPERIMENTAL METHODS IN NINETEENTHCENTURY GERMAN PSYCHOLOGY | 129 |
ON CONTINUITY IN SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS | 141 |
WALTHER NERNST AND QUANTUM THEORY | 151 |
HISTORICAL EXPLANATIONS IN MODERN PHYSICS? THE LESSON OF QUANTUM MECHANICS | 163 |
FRITZ LONDON AND THE COMMUNITY OF QUANTUM PHYSICISTS | 177 |
DARKNESS IN THE SCIENCES? | 191 |
INTRODUCTION TO THE BASIC CONCEPTS OF COMMUNICATIONORIENTED SCIENCE STUDIES | 199 |
PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS OF MODERN PSYCHOLOGY | 209 |
ON THE FORMATION OF A PHILOSOPHICAL DISCIPLINE IN NINETEENTHCENTURY GERMANY | 223 |
THE TRANSFORMATION OF GERMAN PHILOSOPHY IN THE CONTEXT OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY | 235 |
REFORM EFFORTS OF LOGIC AT MIDNINETEENTH CENTURY IN GERMANY | 247 |
SCHELLINGS NATURPHILOSOPHIE AS A TRANSITION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF IDENTITY | 339 |
A NEW CORRESPONDENCE OF THE PHILOSOPHER | 351 |
THE INFLUENCE OF JAKOB FRIEDRICH FRIES ON MATTHIAS SCHLEIDEN | 357 |
THE GEOGRAPHICAL VISION AND THE POPULAR ORDER OF DISCIPLINES 18481870 | 367 |
YOUNG NAVIER ROEBLING AND THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE | 377 |
FRUITFUL COOPERATION IN DIFFERENT SOCIAL ORDERS | 387 |
MEETING PLACES FOR CULTURE AND THE SCIENCES | 401 |
A PHYSICIST IN BIOLOGY | 415 |
NOBODY CAN BECOME A REAL ENGINEER WHO HAS NOT ALREADY BECOME A WHOLE PERSON | 423 |
SUMMER INSTITUTE PROGRAM 1988 | 431 |
ABOUT THE AUTHORS | 439 |
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