Protophysics of time and the principle of relativity

Joachim Pfarr

pp. 159-189

in: Robert S. Cohen, Mark W. Wartofsky (eds), Physical sciences and history of physics, Berlin, Springer, 1984

Abstract

The discussion about "protophysics' has hitherto been a purely German affair, restricted to the German-speaking world. Nearly all publications, papers, programmatic declarations and also critical remarks have been written in German, and so American philosophers of science have been untouched by this special version of a Philosophy of Science. Now since the book Protophysics of Time by Peter Janich (forthcoming)¹ will be published in English without a critical commentary, it is of some general importance to point out publicly that there has been criticism of this program in Germany and that it comes from both philosophers of science and physicists.² The approaches of the protophysical program have not gone unchallenged, as one can also learn from the new edition or the English version of Die Protophysik der Zeit.³

Cited authors

Janich Peter