Hans Reichenbach

Hans Reichenbach (September 26, 1891, Hamburg, – April 9, 1953, Los Angeles) was a leading philosopher of science, educator and proponent of logical positivism.

Selected publications

• Der Begriff der Wahrscheinlichkeit fur die mathematische Darstellung der Wirklichkeit, dissertation, Erlangen, 1915.
• The theory of relativity and a priori knowledge, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965.
• Bericht uber eine Axiomatik der Einsteinschen Raum-Zeit-Lehre, in: Phys. Zeitschr., 1922.
• The present state of the discussion on relativity, in: Modern philosophy of science - selected essays by Hans Reichenbach. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul; New York: Humanities press, 1959.
• Axiomatization of the theory of relativity, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969.
• The theory of motion according to Newton, Leibniz, and Huyghens, in: Modern philosophy of science - selected essays by Hans Reichenbach. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul; New York: Humanities press, 1959.
• Die Kausal-strukture der Welt und der Unterschied von Vergangenheit und Zukunft, in: Sitzungsber d. Bayer. Akad. d. Wiss., math-naturwiss.
• From Copernicus to Einstein, New York : Alliance book corp., 1942.
• The philosophy of space and time, New York : Dover Publications, 1958.
• Atom and cosmos; the world of modern physics, London : G. Allen & Unwin, ltd., 1932.
• Aims and methods of modern philosophy of nature, in: Modern philosophy of science - selected essays. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1959.
• The theory of probability, an inquiry into the logical and mathematical foundations of the calculus of probability, Berkeley : University of California Press, 1948.
• Experience and prediction: an analysis of the foundations and the structure of knowledge, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Philosophic foundations of quantum mechanics, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California press.
• Elements of symbolic logic, New York, Macmillan.
• Philosophy and physics, Faculty research lectures, 1946, Berkeley, University of California Press.
• The philosophical significance of the theory of relativity, in: Albert Einstein - philosopher-scientist, editted by P. A. Schillp. Evanston: The Library of Living Philosophers.
• The rise of scientific philosophy, Berkeley: University of California Press.
• The direction of time, Berkeley: University of California Press.