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Kann man lernen, mit Gedanken zu experimentieren? Ernst Machs Vorstellung des Gedankenexperiments im Kontext der zeitgenössischen Pädagogik (2015)

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Volume: 38, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 41-58

DOI: 10.1002/bewi.201501704

Publication Date: 2015
Edition Details: Part of a Series: Ernst Mach und das Gedankenexperiment um 1900
Language: German

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Is it Possible to Experiment with Thought? Ernst Mach's Notion of Thought Experiment and its Pedagogical Context around 1900. The article tries to establish the crucial importance of the pedagogical dimension of Ernst Mach's ideas on experimenting with thought. The focus on contemporary pedagogics demonstrates, first, that Mach's didactic approach to physics is part of a much broader stream of pedagogical writings that transcends national and disciplinary borders and comprises a diversity of authors, e.g. Wilhelm Jerusalem, William James or Alfred N. Whitehead; second, that the much-heralded controversy between Mach and the French philosopher of science Pierre Duhem about thought experiments does not only revolve around epistemological issues but rather stems from their antagonist vision of teaching physics; and finally, third, that G. Stanley Hall's psychogenetic theory of pedagogics bears a strong resemblance with the evolutionary naturalism of Machian epistemology and helps explaining key tenets of Mach's conception of thought experiment. By establishing a broad convergence between the work of all these authors despite their different academic upbringing, background and nationality the article argues for a complex and historically fine-grained vision of the relations between natural, social and human sciences going beyond dichotomies like `Erklären' and `Verstehen' or the `Two Cultures'.

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