Abschnittsübersicht

  • Le libre arbitre et la physique vers la fin du XIXe siècle.

    Exposés:

    B. d'Houtaud sur Hacking.

    H. Skender sur Bordoni.

    C. Stolz sur Maxwell.

    Lecture :

    S. Bordoni, On the borderline between science and philosophy, SHPS 2015.

    J. Boussinesq, Conciliation du véritable déterminisme mécanique avec l'existence de la vie et de la liberté morale, 1878

    Ian Hacking, 19th-century cracks in the concept of determinism, 1983.

    J. C. Maxwell, Does the progress of physical science tend to give any advantage to the opinion of necessity (or determinism) over that of the contingency of events and the freedom of will?, 1873.

    J. C. Maxwell, Review of Balfour Stewart, An Elementary Treatise of Entergy and Its Laws, 1873. Nature 9(220), 1874, 198-200.

    Matt Stanley, The Pointsman, Journal of the History of Ideas, 2008.