Helmut Pulte

Helmut Pulte (* 1956 in Rahrbach , now Kirchhundem ) is a German philosopher , science theorist and historian . He is co-editor of the Journal for General Philosophy of Science .

Life

Helmut Pulte studied mathematics and physics at the Ruhr University Bochum from 1976 to 1982, and from 1978 also philosophy. He received his doctorate there in 1986 with the dissertation The principle of the smallest action and the force conceptions of rational mechanics. A study of the fundamental problems with Leonhard Euler, Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis and Joseph Louis Lagrange ( Franz Steiner Verlag 1989). The habilitation took place in 2000 in philosophy. Since 2002 he has held the chair for philosophy with special emphasis on the theory of science and the history of science at the Ruhr University in Bochum.

From 1983 to 1986 Pulte was a PhD scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . From 1984 to 1986 and 1988 he was a research assistant, from 1986 to 1988 traineeship and lecturer. In the years 1988–1992 Pulte was employed in the school service and 1996–2002 as a teacher in the university service. His habilitation was funded from 1992–1995 by a grant from the German Research Foundation . From 1995–1996 he conducted research at the University of Cambridge as a Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . From 2001 to 2004 he was co-editor of the Historical Dictionary of Philosophy . Since 2005 Pulte has been co-editor of the Journal for General Philosophy of Science (formerly Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie ). Pulte has represented philosophy in the Scientific Commission of the Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities since 2017 .

Works

Monographs

• Axiomatics and empiricism. A study of the history of science on mathematical natural philosophy from Newton to Neumann. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-534-15894-6 .
• The principle of the smallest effect and the force conceptions of rational mechanics. An investigation into the fundamental problems with Leonhard Euler, Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis and Joseph Louis Lagrange. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-515-04984-3 .

Editorships

• with Scott Mandelbrote: The Reception of Isaac Newton in Europe. 3 volumes Bloomsbury , London 2019, ISBN 978-0-8264-7970-9 .
• with Michael Heidelberger and Gregor Schiemann : Hermann von Helmholtz. Philosophical and popular science writings. 3 volumes Meiner , Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7873-2896-3 .
• with Ulrich Weiß: Hugo Dingler: The experiment. Its essence and its history. mentis , Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-89785-636-3 . [New edition of the original published in 1928 by Ernst Reinhardt Verlag Munich]
• with Gila Hanna and Hans Niels Jahnke: Explanation and Proof in Mathematics. Philosophical and Educational Perspectives. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2009, ISBN 978-1-4419-0575-8 .
• Carl Gustav J. Jacobi: Lectures on analytical mechanics. Berlin 1847/48. Based on a transcript by Wilhelm Scheibner. (= Documents on the history of mathematics. 8). Vieweg , Braunschweig 1996, ISBN 3-528-06692-X .

Selected contributions in anthologies and journals

• Johannes von Kries's Objective Probability as a Semi-Classical Concept. Prehistory, Preconditions and Problems of a Progressive Idea. In: Journal for General Philosophy of Science . 47, No. 1, 2016, pp. 109–129. doi: 10.1007 / s10838-015-9317-5
• Emil Du Bois-Reymond in Context: Kantianism and 'Mechanical' Limitations of Knowledge in the Second Half of the 19th Century. In: Nadia Moro and Michael Anacker (eds.): Limits of Knowledge. The Nineteenth-Century Epistemological Debate and Beyond. Mimesis, Milan 2016, pp. 57-73.
• Against the naturalization of the human: Wilhelm Dilthey in the context and as theoretician of the natural sciences of his time. In: Christian Damböck, Hans-Ulrich Lessing (ed.): Dilthey as a philosopher of science. Alber , Freiburg / Munich 2015, pp. 63–85.
• Science. On the philosophical history of a central theme of the 19th century: main directions and developments. In: Annika Hand, Christian Bermes, Ulrich Dierse (Hrsg.): Key terms of the philosophy of the 19th century. Meiner , Hamburg 2015, pp. 483-522.
• Tolerance in Science from a Philosophical Perspective. An Essay on its Forms and its Necessity in Modern Times. In: Orbis Idearum. 2, No. 1, 2014, ISSN  2353-3900 , pp. 127-139.
• Science and its Demarcation in the Light of the History of Ideas. A short outline with apparent and real implications for 'Appearance and Reality'. In: Orbis Idearum. 1, No. 1, 2013, ISSN  2353-3900 , pp. 105-117.
• JF Fries' Philosophy of Science, the New Friesian School and the Berlin Group: On Divergent Scientific Philosophies, Difficult Relations and Missed Opportunities. In: Nikolay Milkov, Volker Peckhaus (Ed.): The Berlin Group and the Philosophy of Logical Empiricism (= Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. 273). Springer, Dordrecht 2013, ISBN 978-94-007-5485-0 , pp. 43-66.
• Rational Mechanics in the Eighteenth Century. On Structural Developments of a Mathematical Science. In: Reports on the history of science . 35, No. 3, pp. 183-199. doi: 10.1002 / bewi.201201550
• The Kantian concept of analogy and the theory of modern natural sciences: a schematic overview. In: Klaus Hentschel (Ed.): Analogies in natural sciences, medicine and technology (= Acta historica Leopoldina. 56). Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft , Stuttgart 2010 (Acta Historica Leopoldina), ISBN 978-3-8047-2865-3 , pp. 181-200.
• From Axioms to Conventions and Hypotheses: The Foundation of Mechanics and the Roots of Carl Neumann's "Principles of the Galilean-Newtonian Theory". In: Michael Heidelberger, Gregor Schiemann (eds.): The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences. de Gruyter , Berlin / New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-020694-4 , pp. 77-98.
• Darwin and the exact sciences. A comparative epistemological study of physics with an outlook on mathematics. In: Eve-Marie Engels (ed.): Charles Darwin and its effect. Suhrkamp , Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-29503-8 , pp. 139-177.
• Darwin's Relevance for Ninteenth-Century Physics and Physicists: A Comparative Study. In: Eve-Marie Engels and Thomas F. Glick (Eds.): The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe. Vol. 1. Continuum, London 2008, ISBN 978-0-8264-5833-9 , pp. 116-134.
• Thought experiment and physical worldview: reflections on the formation of natural science and on natural science education following Albert Einstein. In: Philipp W. Balsiger, Rudolf Kötter (ed.): The culture of modern science using the example of Albert Einstein. Elsevier , Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8274-1781-7 , pp. 39-68.
• The Space between Helmhotz and Einstein: Moritz Schlick on Spatial Intuition and the Foundations of Geometry. In: Vincent F. Hendricks, Klaus F. Jørgensen, Jesper Lützen, Stig A. Pedersen (eds.): Interactions. Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy, 1860-1930 (= Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. 251). Springer, Dordrecht 2006, ISBN 1-4020-5194-8 , pp. 185-206.
• Kant, Fries, and the Expanding Universe of Science. In: Michael Friedman and Alfred Nordmann (Eds.): The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science. The MIT Press , Cambridge (Mass.) / London 2006, ISBN 0-262-06254-2 , pp. 101-121.
• Assignment, illustration. In: Joachim Ritter, Karlfried founder, Gottfried Gabriel (Hrsg.): Historical dictionary of philosophy . Volume 12. Schwabe, Basel 2004, Col. 1439–1443.
• Philosophy of science; Philosophy of science. In: Joachim Ritter, Karlfried founder, Gottfried Gabriel (Hrsg.): Historical dictionary of philosophy. Volume 12. Schwabe, Basel 2004, Col. 973-981.
• Science research; Science science. In: Joachim Ritter, Karlfried founder, Gottfried Gabriel (Hrsg.): Historical dictionary of philosophy. Volume 12. Schwabe, Basel 2004, Col. 960-963.
• Science III: 19th and 20th centuries. In: Joachim Ritter, Karlfried founder, Gottfried Gabriel (Hrsg.): Historical dictionary of philosophy. Volume 12. Schwabe, Basel 2004, Col. 921-948.
• with Michael Drieschner: Wave Mechanics. In: Joachim Ritter, Karlfried founder, Gottfried Gabriel (Hrsg.): Historical dictionary of philosophy. Volume 12. Schwabe, Basel 2004, Col. 401-403.
• with Wolfgang Lefèvre: Resistance I. In: Joachim Ritter, Karlfried founder, Gottfried Gabriel (Hrsg.): Historical dictionary of philosophy. Volume 12. Schwabe, Basel 2004, Col. 703-709.
• with Bernd Buldt: Probability IV: Modern Times to the Present - A: Mathematics and Sciences. In: Joachim Ritter, Karlfried founder, Gottfried Gabriel (Hrsg.): Historical dictionary of philosophy. Volume 12. Schwabe, Basel 2004, Col. 265–290.
• Truth likeness. In: Joachim Ritter, Karlfried founder, Gottfried Gabriel (Hrsg.): Historical dictionary of philosophy. Volume 12. Schwabe, Basel 2004, Col. 170–177.
• Assimilation and Profession - The 'Jewish' Mathematician CGJ Jacobi (1804-1851). In: Dan Diener (Ed.): Yearbook of the Simon Dubnow Institute / Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook. Volume 3. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-36930-1 , pp. 161-173.
• Formal teleology and theoretical unification. Philosophical and historical considerations on their relationship in Kant and Fries, Kitcher and Friedman. In: M. Stöltzner and P. Weingartner (eds.): Formal teleology and causality in physics: on the philosophical relevance of the principle of the smallest effect and its history. mentis, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-89785-283-7 , pp. 77-96.
• Prediction; Forecast; Forecast. In: Joachim Ritter, Karlfried founder, Gottfried Gabriel (Hrsg.): Historical dictionary of philosophy. Volume 11. Schwabe, Basel 2001, Col. 1145–1161.
• Variation; Variety; Variability. In: Joachim Ritter, Karlfried founder, Gottfried Gabriel (Hrsg.): Historical dictionary of philosophy. Volume 11. Schwabe, Basel 2001, Sp. 548-554.
• Order of Nature and Orders of Science. On the Mathematical Philosophy of Nature and its Changing Concepts of Science from Newton and Euler to Lagrange and Kant. In: Wolfgang Lefèvre (Ed.): Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant. Philosophy and Science in the Eighteenth Century (= Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. 220). Springer, Dordrecht 2001, ISBN 0-7923-7198-4 , pp. 61-92.
• Hypotheses (non) fingo? The understanding of science in the Enlightenment as reflected in its Newtonian reception. In: Ryszard Różanowski (Ed.): Topicality of the Enlightenment. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, Wrocław (Ger. Breslau) 2000, pp. 77-106.
• Beyond the Edge of Certainty: Reflections on the Rise of Physical Conventionalism. In: Philosophia Scientiæ. 4, No. 1, 2000, pp. 47-68. http://www.numdam.org/item/PHSC_2000__4_1_47_0/ (accessed May 23, 2019).
• Diversity of rules and unity of principles: Maupertuis and the demetaphysing of teleological thought. In: Hartmut Hecht (Ed.): Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis. A balance sheet after 300 years. Spitz, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-87061-843-4 , pp. 235-259.
• with Gert König: Theory II: 20th century (philosophy of science). In: Joachim Ritter, Karlfried founder, Gottfried Gabriel (Hrsg.): Historical dictionary of philosophy. Volume 10. Schwabe, Basel 1998, Sp. 1146-1154.
• From physical theology to methodology. On the transformation of nomothetic teleology and systems thinking in Kant and Fries. In: Wolfram Hogrebe and Kay Herrmann (eds.): Jakob Friedrich Fries. Philosopher, scientist and mathematician. Negotiations of the symposium "Problems and Perspectives of Jakob Friedrich Fries' Epistemology and Natural Philosophy" from 9.-11. October 1997 at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (= Studia Philosophica et Historica. 25). Lang , Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1998, ISBN 3-631-31429-9 , pp. 301-351.
• "... but empiricism and speculation should combine". Historiographical considerations on the previous reception of the epistemological and natural philosophical work of JF Fries and some reasons for its reassessment. In: Wolfram Hogrebe and Kay Herrmann (eds.): Jakob Friedrich Fries. Philosopher, scientist and mathematician. Negotiations of the symposium "Problems and Perspectives of Jakob Friedrich Fries' Epistemology and Natural Philosophy" from 9.-11. October 1997 at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (= Studia Philosophica et Historica. 25). Lang, Frankfurt am Main [a. a.] 1998, ISBN 3-631-31429-9 , pp. 57-94.
• Jacobi's Criticism of Lagrange: The Changing Role of Mathematics in the Foundations of Classical Mechanics. In: Historia Mathematica . 25, No. 2, 1998, pp. 154-184. doi: 10.1006 / hmat.1997.2186
• After 150 Years: News from Jacobi about Lagrange's Analytical Mechanics. In: The Mathematical Intelligencer . 19, No. 3, 1997, pp. 48-54. doi: 10.1007 / BF03025350
• with Eberhard Knobloch and Herbert Pieper: "... glorify the essence of pure mathematics". Pure mathematics and mathematical natural philosophy at CGJ Jacobi. With his speech on entry into the philosophical faculty of the University of Königsberg from the year 1832. In: Mathematische Semesterberichte. 42, No. 2, 1995, pp. 99-132. doi: 10.1007 / PL00009906
• Darwin in physics and among 19th century physicists. A comparative scientific-theoretical and -historical investigation. In: Eve-Marie Engels (ed.): The reception of evolution theories in the 19th century. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-518-28829-6 , pp. 105-146.
• CGJ Jacobi's legacy of 'conventional' analytical mechanics: history, transcripts and content of his last mechanics lecture. In: Annals of Science. 51, No. 5, 1994, pp. 497-516. doi: 10.1080 / 00033799400200381
• On the decline of Euclidianism in 19th century mechanics. In: General Society for Philosophy in Germany in conjunction with the Institute for Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, History of Science and Technology at the Technical University of Berlin (Ed.): XVI. German Congress for Philosophy: New Realities. Challenges of Philosophy. 20.-24. September 1993, TU Berlin. Section contributions II. Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-7983-1553-1 , pp. 833-840.
• The Newton Reception in Eighteenth Century Rational Mechanics. Philosophical, historical and historical reflections on a controversial topic. In: Contributions to the history of technology and technical education. Part 7. University of Technology, Economy and Culture, Leipzig 1993, pp. 33–59.

Web links

• Homepage on the website of the Ruhr University Bochum.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Curriculum vitae on the website of the Ruhr University Bochum, (online) ; accessed on May 23, 2019. All other biographical information is also from this source.