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This volume is part of a short series which will make major texts by the German scientist and philosopher Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912–2007) available in English to a wider audience. Through his writings, many of which have already appeared in English translation, he has become known as a pre-eminent theoretical physicist as well as one of the most important German philosophers of the twentieth century. This volume is devoted to texts in philosophy while the four other volumes in the series present an overview of his writings and selections of texts on physics, religion, and politics and peace research.
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Cf. his “Self-Portrait”, in: von Weizsäcker (1988).
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The secondary school in Germany.
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English translation by Grene (1952).
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Die Geschichte der Natur (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1948); English translation: The History of Nature (Chicago, Chicago University Press, 1949).
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Numbers in () refer to the chapters in this volume.
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Zeit und Wissen [Time and Knowledge] (Munich: Hanser, 1992).
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Cf. the bibliography in the chapter “On the Author” at the end of this volume. A comprehensive bibliography of works mainly in German has been published in: Journal for General Philosophy of Science. 2008, Vol. 39, pp. 179–244. DOI: 10.1007/s10838-008-9069-6. See also the website on this book on Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, at: <http://afes-press-books.de/html/SpringerBriefs_PSP_C.F.v._Weizsaecker.htm>.
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von Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich, 1952: The World View of Physics (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul), translation by Marjorie Grene of ‘Zum Weltbild der Physik’.
von Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich, 1988: The Ambivalence of Progress (New York: Paragon House): 1–30.
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Drieschner, M. (2014). Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts in Philosophy—A Brief Introduction by the Editor. In: Drieschner, M. (eds) Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts in Philosophy. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice(), vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03671-7_1
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