Joost Kircz
Biographic Data
| ID | 5934514 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joost Kircz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joost |
| FAMILY NAME | Kircz |
| SIGNATURE | KIRCZ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Physics University of Amsterdam The Netherlands |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Albert Einstein
The article entails the translation of notes made by Karl Korsch in 1930 at a lecture given by Albert Einstein at the Marxist Workers School in Berlin.The event was announced as a working group discussion.Einstein spoke on the topic of causality which was of particular interest due to the developments in physics at the time as well as the problem of causality in historical materialism.The translation is accompanied by an introduction which provid…
Time=Money
This paper is about the possibility of using the notion of the Ideal in physics, this on top of its known role in communications, education, and economy. Present day fashion is to import concepts and methods from the natural sciences into the humanities. However as human culture covers all human knowledge, this one-way approach demands critique. Not only by arguing about the limitations of this fashion, but by investigating the reverse. To what e…
Friedrich Engels’ Importance for Contemporary Materialist Epistemology
In this contribution for Friedrich Engels' bicentennial birthday, we investigate to what extent the epistemological ideas of F. Engels, based in nineteenth-century science, can serve as stepping stones towards a novel materialistic epistemology given de contemporary state of the sciences. I look at Engels as an historical figure in his nineteenth-century context with strong and pertinent emancipatory ideas, who understood the need of a materialis…
Engels and Natural Science
MAKING AN ASSESSMENT OF Friedrich Engels and his relation to science, it is essential to clearly realize its political context. Engels and Marx never had a l'art pour Vari' approach to analyzing the world: for them understanding the world around us is the key to changing it. It is exactly this goal of consciously changing the world that drove Engels to spend so much time trying to understand science. If we follow the intellectual development of M…
Engels and Natural Science
MAKING AN ASSESSMENT OF Friedrich Engels and his relation to science, it is essential to clearly realize its political context. Engels and Marx never had a l'art pour Vari' approach to analyzing the world: for them understanding the world around us is the key to changing it. It is exactly this goal of consciously changing the world that drove Engels to spend so much time trying to understand science. If we follow the intellectual development of M…
Engels and Natural Science
MAKING AN ASSESSMENT OF Friedrich Engels and his relation to science, it is essential to clearly realize its political context. Engels and Marx never had a l'art pour Vari' approach to analyzing the world: for them understanding the world around us is the key to changing it. It is exactly this goal of consciously changing the world that drove Engels to spend so much time trying to understand science. If we follow the intellectual development of M…
Time=Money
This paper is about the possibility of using the notion of the Ideal in physics, this on top of its known role in communications, education, and economy. Present day fashion is to import concepts and methods from the natural sciences into the humanities. However as human culture covers all human knowledge, this one-way approach demands critique. Not only by arguing about the limitations of this fashion, but by investigating the reverse. To what e…
Friedrich Engels’ Importance for Contemporary Materialist Epistemology
In this contribution for Friedrich Engels' bicentennial birthday, we investigate to what extent the epistemological ideas of F. Engels, based in nineteenth-century science, can serve as stepping stones towards a novel materialistic epistemology given de contemporary state of the sciences. I look at Engels as an historical figure in his nineteenth-century context with strong and pertinent emancipatory ideas, who understood the need of a materialis…
Albert Einstein
The article entails the translation of notes made by Karl Korsch in 1930 at a lecture given by Albert Einstein at the Marxist Workers School in Berlin.The event was announced as a working group discussion.Einstein spoke on the topic of causality which was of particular interest due to the developments in physics at the time as well as the problem of causality in historical materialism.The translation is accompanied by an introduction which provid…
Philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Marxist philosophy (2 works) · Materialism (2 works) · Physics (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Quantum Mechanics and Applications (2 works)