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Personal Comment by Michael Hampe: Attention is an important resource in the academic and literary world and always was. Its unartful “handling” can lead to problems that relate in my view to the ethics of science, problems that are relevant for the production of a scholarly journal not only at the periphery. When Olaf Müller contacted me at the end of the year 2015, asking if I would be willing to co-edit a special issue of this journal on a discussion of his new book on Newton and Goethe, I considered this a good opportunity to get into touch again with a topic that has interested me for some decades. Now I believe that Müller and me did not make a good move in agreeing that I should do this job. Sharing an interest in philosophy of nature, Newton and Goethe and the relation between experimental enquiries and philosophy of nature is not enough to agree about the way these topics should be pursued. If Müller would have known my own philosophical work better before he contacted me and if I had known his book better before agreeing to do this job, this collaboration would probably not have taken place. The methodical and stylistic differences between us are very visible in my own critical reaction to Müller’s book in this issue, which might astonish some readers, who perhaps expect a more friendly view from an editor of a special issue on the book he is reviewing.
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Lampert, T., Hampe, M. Introduction. J Gen Philos Sci 49, 499–501 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-017-9390-z
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