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