PHYSICS & PHILOSOPHY

By MARY HARRIS

CONTENTS HELMHOLTZ AND THE DETERMINACY OF PHYSICAL THEORY A MECHANICAL IMAGE: HEINRICH HERTZ’S PRINCIPLES OF MECHANICS FROM CLASSICAL TO RELATIVISTIC MECHANICS: ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELS OF THE ELECTRON ENRIQUES: POPULARISING SCIENCE AND THE PROBLEMS OF GEOMETRY HILBERT’S AXIOMATIC APPROACH TO THE FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE—A FAILED RESEARCH PROGRAM? THE SPACE BETWEEN HELMHOLTZ AND EINSTEIN: MORITZ SCHLICK ON SPATIAL INTUITION AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF GEOMETRY MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURE, “WORLD STRUCTURE,” AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL TURNING-POINT IN MODERN PHYSICS EINSTEIN’S ALLIES AND ENEMIES: DEBATING RELATIVITY IN GERMANY, 1916– 1920 THE CHANGING CONCEPT OF MATTER IN H WEYL’S THOUGHT, 1918– 1930 WHY DOES THE STANDARD MEASURE WORK IN STATISTICAL MECHANICS?