Time, Causality, and the Quantum Theory: Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Vol. 1: Essay on the Causal Theory of Time (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 19-1)

An intermittent but mentally quite disabling illness prevented Henry Mehlberg from becoming recognized more widely as the formidable scholar he was, when at his best. During World War II, he had lived in hiding under the false identity of an egg farmer, when the Nazis occupied his native Poland. After relatively short academic appointments at the University of Toronto and at Princeton University, he taught at the University of Chicago until reaching the age of normal retirement. But partly at the initiative of his Chicago colleague Charles Morris, who had preceded him to a 'post-retirement' profes­ sorship at the University of Florida in Gainesville, and with the support of Eugene Wigner, he then received an appointment at that University, where he remained until his death in 1979. In Chicago, he organized a discussion group of scholars from that area as a kind of small scale model of the Vienna Circle, which met at his apart­ ment, where he lived with his first wife Janina, a mathematician. It was during this Chicago period that the functional disturbances from his illness were pronounced and not infrequent. The very unfortunate result was that colleagues who had no prior knowledge of the caliber of his writings in Polish and French or of his very considerable intellectual powers, had little incentive to read his published work, which he had begun to write in English. Front Matter....Pages i-xix Introduction to Volumes I and II....Pages 1-36 Front Matter....Pages 37-41 Leibniz and the Beginnings of the Causal Theory of Time....Pages 42-50 Kant’s Phenomenalist Interpretation of the Causal Theory of Time....Pages 51-69 Lechalas’ Adaptation of the Causal Theory of Time to the Laws of Pre-Einsteinian Physics....Pages 70-90 The Relativistic Phase of the Causal Theory of Time: The Axiomatic Systems of Robb and Carnap....Pages 91-104 The Relativistic Phase of the Causal Theory of Time: The Work of Reichenbach....Pages 105-133 Russell’s Causal Explanation of Duration....Pages 134-146 Alternative Approaches to Time’s Arrow....Pages 147-160 Front Matter....Pages 161-161 The Intuitive Foundations of the Knowledge of Time....Pages 163-186 Physical Time....Pages 187-236 Non-Physical Time....Pages 237-260 The Present Empirical Status of Psychophysical Parallelism....Pages 261-268 Conceptual Analysis of Psychophysical Parallelism....Pages 269-285 Back Matter....Pages 286-307 V. 1. Essay On The Causal Theory Of Time.--v. 2. Time In A Quantized Universe. Henry Mehlberg. Vol. 1 Based On An Unpublished Translation Of Essai Sur La Théorie Causale Du Temps, Which Was Revised By Carolyn R. Fawcett And Robert S. Cohen. Includes Indexes. Bibliography: V. 2, P. 262-282. v. 1. Essay on the causal theory of time. v. 2. Time in a quantized universe.