Hans reichenbach philosophy in life
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Hans Reichenbach
1. Life
Born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1891, Hans Reichenbach was the second of four children of a half-Jewish but baptized father and a non-Jewish mother. In secondary school and at university he was active in the socialist student movement. From 1910 to 1911 he studied civil engineering at the Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart, and then moved among Berlin, Munich and Göttingen, studying physics, philosophy and mathematics with some of the eminences of the time, including Ernst Cassirer, Max Planck, Arnold Sommerfeld and David Hilbert.[1] He wrote his doctoral dissertation largely on his own after the neo-Kantian Paul Natorp would not accept him as his student. After searching for alternative advisors, his dissertation was finally accepted by Paul Hensel, a philosopher, and Max Noether, a mathematician, in 1915 in Erlangen. Reichenbach was conscripted into the army while completing his thesis. He served in the German army signal corps on the Russian front
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Reichenbach on Space and Time
Arto Siitonen, Helsinki, Finland
Abstract
Reichenbach studied under Einstein’s guidance and was well qualified to cultivate philosophical analysis of the problems of space and time. In his three books on this topic, appeared in 1920, 1924 and 1928, he became emancipated from Kantianism and replaced it bygd empiricism. He was influenced by Schlick, from whom he received the idea of knowledge as coordination.
Reichenbach studies the philosophical consequences of relativized space and time both systematically and historically. Important questions in this connection are how distance and duration are measured and what these measuring procedures presuppose. He defines time order bygd the concepts earlier and later, time direction bygd past, present and future. In his last, unfinished book, he concentrates on the bekymmer of direction. He claims that the relation between past and future fryst vatten objectively asymmetric. In fact, if relaterad till rymden eller universum chronology fryst vatten open-ended,
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Hans Reichenbach
German philosopher (1891–1953)
Hans Reichenbach | |
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| Born | (1891-09-26)September 26, 1891 Hamburg, German Empire |
| Died | April 9, 1953(1953-04-09) (aged 61) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Education | University of Berlin University of Göttingen University of Munich University of Erlangen (PhD, 1916) Technische Hochschule Stuttgart (Dr. phil. hab., 1920) |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic Berlin Circle Logical empiricism |
| Institutions | University of Berlin Istanbul University UCLA |
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| Doctoral advisors | Paul Hensel, Max Noether (PhD thesis advisors) |
| Other academic advisors | Max Born, Ernst Cassirer, David Hilbert, Max Planck, Arnold Sommerfeld, Albert Einstein |
| Doctoral students | Carl Gustav Hempel, Hilary Putnam, Wesley Salmon |
Main interests | Philosophy of science |
Notable ideas | |
Hans Reichenbach (; German:[ˈʁaɪçənbax]; September 26, 1891 – April 9, 19