Sean Winkler PhD

March 1st - August 27th 2020

 

Research for a study about

 

Completing one chapter of a book on the work of the Soviet philosopher Boris Hessen

 

 

 

Report

Work Package (WP) #1

 Article

“A Study of Dynamic and Statistical Regularity in Hessenian Marxism: An Introduction”

 Translations

“Marian Smoluchowski (On the 10th Anniversary of His Death),” Hessen

“On Cde. Timiryazev’s Attitude towards Contemporary Science,” Hessen & Egorshin

“Mechanical Materialism and Modern Physics,” Hessen

 Status: Submitted together to Science in Context for review

 

Work Package #2

 Article

“Boris Hessen and The Vienna Circle: Richard von Mises’s Concept of the Collective in Hessenian Marxism”

 

Translations

“Preface to ‘On Causal and Statistical Regularities in Physics,’ by R.v. Mises,” Hessen

“The Statistical Method in Physics and R. Mises’s New Justification of Probability Theory,” Hessen

“A Theoretico-Probabilistic Justification of the Ergodic Hypothesis (Excerpt),” Hessen

 Status: Still writing article, polishing up translations

 

 Work Package #3

Article

TBD

 

Translations

“Idealistic Tendencies in Modern Physics and the Struggle against Them”

“V.I. Lenin’s Work, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism

“On the Question of Training Scientific Workers in Theoretical Natural Science”

 Status: Still carrying out translations

Online Lecture

Title

 "Quantum and Materialist Dialectics: Dynamic and Statistical Regularity in Hessenian Marxism"

The talk will be about Boris Hessen's understanding of a 'unity in opposition' between dynamic and statistical conceptions of natural law in the history of physics.  I would put a particular emphasis on Hessen's study of the work of Richard von Mises.

Date: 23/06/2020

Time: 17h15 

Venue: Online University of Vienna - Department of Philosophy

and

Date: 06/07/2020

Time: 17h15 

Venue: Online " Ca' Foscari University of Venice (IT), 6 July 2020

Jitsi online Talk

Title

"Scientific Revolution and Materialist Dialectics The Philosophy of Boris Hessen"

Date: 14/05/2020

Time: 14h00

Venue: Jitsi Talk