INTRODUCTION: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. INTRODUCTION: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 3
4. I. THE LAW OF CAUSALITY AND EXPERIENCE (1908) 17
5. II. THE IMPORTANCE OF ERNST MACH'S PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE FOR OUR TIMES (1917) 28
6. III. PHYSICAL THEORIES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND SCHOOL PHILOSOPHY (1929) 55
7. IV. IS THERE A TREND TODAY TOWARD IDEALISM IN PHYSICS? (1934) 104
8. V. THE POSITIVISTIC AND THE METAPHYSICAL CONCEPTION OF PHYSICS (1935) 127
9. VI. LOGICAL EMPIRICISM AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SOVIET UNION (1935) 139
10. VII. PHILOSOPHICAL MISINTERPRETATIONS OF THE QUANTUM THEORY (1936) 151
11. VIII. WHAT "LENGTH" MEANS TO THE PHYSICIST (1937) 172
12. IX. DETERMINISM AND INDETERMINISM IN MODERN PHYSICS (I938) 191
13. X. ERNST MACH AND THE UNITY OF SCIENCE (1938) 211
14. INDEX 229