I’m very pleased you found it interesting. One connection I didn’t follow up on here is that American historian Henry Adams had a philosophy of history tied to the idea of thermodynamics, and it would be a fun project to read him in the light of Reichenbach.
I have a reading list compiled from your posts on this, I cannot even catch up haha, philosophy of history is just everywhere isnt it? If the project we are working on gets the funding, you need to jump on board, a small part of it explores the implicit existence of philosophy of history around us. Also, the part you mentioned about Fain grabbed my attention as well, I do not remember coming across that part, his book on sph was quite extensive as well so could have missed it, but I am also reading him and Mink next, and maybe Munz and White as well. Mainly their position on speculative philosophy of history.
The Fain quote is from the end of his book, somewhere in the last few pages. Keep me posted on your project as it sounds interesting. It never ceases to amaze me when I dig down into someone like Reichenbach how much I find that is relevant to philosophy of history.
He will definitely be the next on my reading list. Thank you for info on Fain, I need this for my current chapter for sure, will try to integrate Kuhn's argument as well. Does he mention Kuhn when discussing science by any chance?
This is amazing, thank you! This will come in handy in the current chapter of my phd thesis.
I’m very pleased you found it interesting. One connection I didn’t follow up on here is that American historian Henry Adams had a philosophy of history tied to the idea of thermodynamics, and it would be a fun project to read him in the light of Reichenbach.
I have a reading list compiled from your posts on this, I cannot even catch up haha, philosophy of history is just everywhere isnt it? If the project we are working on gets the funding, you need to jump on board, a small part of it explores the implicit existence of philosophy of history around us. Also, the part you mentioned about Fain grabbed my attention as well, I do not remember coming across that part, his book on sph was quite extensive as well so could have missed it, but I am also reading him and Mink next, and maybe Munz and White as well. Mainly their position on speculative philosophy of history.
The Fain quote is from the end of his book, somewhere in the last few pages. Keep me posted on your project as it sounds interesting. It never ceases to amaze me when I dig down into someone like Reichenbach how much I find that is relevant to philosophy of history.
He will definitely be the next on my reading list. Thank you for info on Fain, I need this for my current chapter for sure, will try to integrate Kuhn's argument as well. Does he mention Kuhn when discussing science by any chance?