دانلود کتاب Einstein on Einstein: Autobiographical and Scientific Reflections

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Cover
Contents
Introduction
I. Preliminaries
1. The Genesis and Scope of the Autobiographical Notes
2. Schilpp’s Enterprise: The Library of Living Philosophers
3. Historical Background: The Year 1946
4. Einstein’s Autobiographical Notes and Planck’s Scientific Autobiography
II. The Autobiographical Notes—Commentaries
1. The Quest for a Unified Worldview
2. “Striving for a Conceptual Grasp of Things\"
3. “My Epistemological Credo\"
4. The Mechanical Worldview and Its Demise: “And Now to the Critique of Mechanics as the Basis of Physics\"
5. The Rise of the Electromagnetic Worldview and the Field Concept: “The Transition from Action at a Distance to Fields\"
6. Planck’s Black-Body Radiation Formula: “But the Matter Has a Serious Drawback\"
7. Einstein’s Statistical Mechanics: Closing the “Gap\"
8. Brownian Motion: “The Existence of Atoms of Definite Finite Size\"
9. A Reflecting Mirror in Radiation Field: “The Mirror Must Experience Certain Random Fluctuations\"
10. The Special Theory of Relativity: “There Is No Such Thing as Simultaneity of Distant Events\"
11. The General Theory of Relativity: “Why Were Another Seven Years Required?”
12. Quantum Mechanics: “This Theory Offers No Useful Point of Departure for Future Development\"
13. The Unified Field Theory: “Finding the Field Equations for the Total Field\"
III. Einstein and His Critics
1. The Physicists and Philosophers Who Contributed to the Volume
2. Einstein’s “Reply to Criticisms\"
A. Response to Max Born, Wolfgang Pauli, Walter Heitler, Niels Bohr, and Henry Margenau
B. Response to Hans Reichenbach
C. Response to Percy Bridgman
D. Response to Henry Margenau
E. Response to Victor Lenzen and Filmer Northrop
F. Response to Articles on General Relativity and Cosmology (Edward Milne, Leopold Infeld, and Georges Lemaître)
G. Response to Kurt Gödel
IV. Einstein’s “Autobiographical Sketch” (1955)
1. Introductory Remarks
2. “Autobiographical Sketch”—An English Translation
V. Concluding Remarks: Einstein the Philosopher-Scientist
VI. Reprint of the English Translation of Autobiographical Notes
References
Index