NAME INDEX

Abraham, Max 30–1

Acton, John Emerich 127, 137–8, 141, 144–5, 152, 194, 208

Adey, Glyn 65

Adler, Alfred 53

Adorno, Theodor W. 65–8, 72–3, 76, 78–81

Aeschylus 24

Albert, Hans 67, 76–7

Ampère, André-Marie 119

Anaximander 40–3, 57, 190

Antiphon 61

Archelaus 61

Archimedes 142

Aristarchus 14, 28, 41, 43, 54, 85, 201

Aristotle 113, 118, 201

Aron, Raymond 65, 81

Bacon, Francis 8, 25, 82–9, 95, 103, 105–7, 109, 127, 133, 185, 194–200, 202–4, 207–9

Badian, Ernst 137

Bartley, III, William Warren 28, 30

Beld, A. van den 206

Bell, John S. 63

Bergson, Henri 25

Berkeley, George 117

Berlin, Isaiah 137, 139, 151

Bernard, Claude 7

Blegvad, Mogens 32

Bodmer, W.F. 22

Bohm, David 57

Bohr, Niels 14–15, 19, 32, 57, 102–3, 118, 120, 164, 173, 208

Bonaparte, Napoléon 131

Borcherdt, H.H. 207

Born, Max 13, 18

Boscovitch, Ruggero 114, 116–17, 119, 120

Bottomore, T.B. 207

Boyle, Robert 198

Braestrup, F.W. 25

Bridgman, Percy W. 31

Broglie, Louis de 18, 57, 112, 117, 173

Brouwer, L.E.J. 56

Brown, Robert 10–11

Bruno, Giordano 14, 209

Bunge, Mario 30–1, 64, 151

Burnet, John 39

Burnet, Macfarlane 9, 26

Campbell, Donald T. 23

Cantor, Georg 56

Carroll, John B. 62

Casals, Pablo 204

Cauchy, Augustin-Louis 117

Chadwick, James 31

Child, James M. 119

Churchill, Winston 134, 178, 184

Claassen, E.M. 154

Clauser, John F. 63

Cleanthes 14

Cohen, Robert S. 31

Collingwood, Robin G. 139, 144, 146–7, 149, 152, 183

Collins, Kims 130, 152

Comte, Auguste 151

Copernicus, Nicolaus 17–18, 20, 41, 54, 84–5, 133, 164, 176, 201, 208

Cranston, Maurice 130

Creighton, Mandell 208

Crick, Francis 19

Crookes, William 93

Dahrendorf, Ralf 66–7

Darius I 36–7

Darwin, Charles 7–8, 14, 17, 19, 20, 25, 68, 90, 95–7

Darwin, Francis 111

Delbrück, Max 26, 32

Democritus 56, 115–16

Descartes, René 48, 112–19, 202–3

Dicke, Robert Henry 57

Diels, Hermann 62, 182

Dilthey, Wilhelm 139

Dirac, Paul 12, 19, 28, 31

Döllinger, Johann von 138

Donagan, Alan 150

Doppler, Christian 105

Drake, Stillman 110, 152

Droysen, Johann Gustav 152

Eccles, John C. 23, 110

Eddington, Arthur S. 31

Ehrlich, Paul 106

Einstein, Albert 15–16, 19–22, 27–32, 53, 57, 63, 89, 91–2, 95–6, 102–3, 105, 111–12, 117–18, 143–4, 173, 176, 201, 208

Ellington, James W. 119

Ellis, Robert Leslie 208

Elton, G.R. 143–5, 152

Engels, Friedrich 76

Erasmus, Desiderius 48, 189–91, 204–5, 207

Erikson, Jim 30

Faraday, Michael 18, 112, 116–17, 119

Farrington, Benjamin 207

Federn, Paul 29

Fisher, John 190

Fisher, S. 81

Fleming, Alexander 106

Fleming, Amalia 106

Fleming, Donald 32

Fode, Kermit 25

Forster, E.M. 204

Frank, Philipp 67, 112

Fränkel, H. 62

Freeman, Eugene 33

Freud, Sigmund 29, 53, 179

Frisby, David 65

Frost, Robert 65

Fürstenberg, F. 76

Galilei, Galileo 14, 20, 57–8, 83–5, 101, 133, 138, 148–9, 152, 157, 195, 198, 201–2, 208

Geiger, Hans 19

Genghis Khan 82

Gerhardt, Carl I. 119

Gilbert, William 195, 198, 202, 208

God 47, 82–3, 130–1, 189, 198–200, 202

Goethe, Johann W. von 79

Gombrich, Ernst 9, 25, 121, 140, 150

Haas, Arthur 14–15

Haberler, Gottfried 130

Habermas, Jürgen 66–8, 72–4, 76

Hadamard, Jacques 13, 25, 28

Hall, R.L. 182

Hansen, Troels Eggers 1, 28, 31

Hardy, Alister 25

Harich, Wolfgang 206

Harré, Rom 1

Harris, Alan 111

Havas, Peter 31, 152

Hayek, Friedrich A. von 130, 139–40, 145, 151, 166, 168, 181, 185, 187–8, 206

Heath, Douglas Denon 208

Heath, Thomas 28

Heaviside, Oliver 30

Hecataeus 171

Hegel, G.W.F. 47, 62, 68, 70, 78–9, 131, 137–8, 151

Hein, A. 23

Heine, Heinrich 187, 206

Heisenberg, Werner 13, 18, 32, 56, 118, 120

Held, R. 23

Helmholtz, Hermann von 117

Heraclitus 39, 59, 61

Herodotus 36–8, 45, 61, 130–1, 141

Hertz, Heinrich 15, 29, 121

Hesiod 39–41, 118, 135

Hilbert, David 56

Himmelfarb, Gertrude 208

Hippocrates 122–4, 129

Hitch, C.J. 182

Hitler, Adolf xiii, 79, 186, 189

Hobbes, Thomas 119

Holt, Richard A. 63

Homer 130, 192

Horkheimer, Max 66, 75, 79–81

Horne, Michael A. 63

Horsefield, J.K. 151

Hübner, Rudolf 152

Hutton, James 25

Infeld, Leopold 21, 31

Jacob, François 26

James, William 24, 209

Jammer, Max 15, 28–9

Jennings, Herbert Spencer 24

Jerne, Niels 9–10, 25–6

Jones, W.H.S. 129

Kahan, Théo 29

Kant, Immanuel 47, 112, 114, 116–17, 119–20, 187, 189, 191, 194, 204, 208

Kaufman, Walter 30

Kelvin, William 117

Kepler, Johannes 13, 27, 89, 101, 148–9, 157, 164–5, 176, 195, 198, 201, 208

Keynes, John Maynard 143, 157, 206

Kierkegaard, Søren 10

Köhler, Wolfgang 5–6, 24

Kranz, Walther 62, 182

Kraus, Karl 29, 78

Krechevsky, J. 23

Kretschmann, E. 57, 144

Kronecker, Leopold 56

Kuhn, Thomas S. 54, 63, 76

Lakatos, Imre 63

Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste 7–8, 25, 90

Lanczos, Cornelius 20–1, 31

Landé, Alfred 57

Lange, Carl Georg 24

Le Sage, G.L. 164

Lecher, Ernst 15

Leibniz, Gottfried W. 112–19

Lenin, Vladimír I. 76, 188

Leonardo da Vinci 194

Letwin, W. 151

Liebig, Justus von 195, 208

Locke, John 142, 204

Lorentz, Hendrick A. 20, 30–1, 102

Lorenz, Konrad 6

Luther, Martin 189, 207

Lutz, Friedrich A. 130

Lyons, Henry 208

Macaulay, Thomas B. 151

Mach, Ernst 56, 63, 117–18

Machlup, Fritz 130

McNeill, William H. 152

Mani 87

Mannheim, Karl 47, 55, 63, 69, 76

Marcuse, Herbert 29

Margenau, Henry 63

Marsden, E. 19

Marx, Karl 12, 47–8, 53, 70, 76, 78–81, 109, 131, 185, 187–8, 193, 206–7

Mary II 142

Masaryk, Thomas 185–7, 206

Maus, H. 76

Maxwell, James Clerk 18, 102, 112, 116–21

Mayr, Ernst 25

Mendel, Gregor 14, 19

Mercier, A. 128

Merz, G. 207

Michelson, Albert A. 31

Mill, John Stuart 105, 188, 204, 206

Miller, David 183

Millikan, Robert A. 15, 110

Milne, Edward Arthur 176

Minkowski, Hermann 20, 31

Monod, Jacques 30

Montague, Charles 142

More, Thomas 190

Motz, Hans 27

Mourelatos, A.P.D. 62

Musgrave, Alan 33, 63

Mussolini, Benito 189

Nadel, George H. 137–8, 151

Needham, Joseph 30

Nernst, Walther 15, 27

Newton, Isaac 18, 20–1, 27–8, 32, 41–3, 89, 91–2, 101, 103, 105, 110, 113, 115–16, 119–20, 142, 144, 151, 157, 163–5, 168, 172, 176, 198, 201

Nielsen, Margit Harup 152

Oppenheimer, Robert J. 127

Pagel, W. 30

Park, James 63

Parmenides 39, 43, 56, 58, 61–2, 113

Pauli, Wolfgang 88, 118, 120

Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich 6, 24

Peirce, Charles Sanders 48, 92

Petersen, Arne 33

Pilate, Pontius 174

Pilot, Harold 67

Pindar 24, 37, 39, 61

Planck, Max 15, 56, 63, 91, 103, 110

Plato 33, 39, 43, 56, 61, 113, 115, 137–8, 185, 187, 192, 194, 199, 201–3, 205

Podolsky, Boris 57, 63

Poincaré, Henri 13, 31, 56, 91

Poisson, Siméon-Denis 117

Poly a, George 111

Polybius 137

Probst, D.K. 209

Protagoras 61

Ptolemy 54, 164, 176, 201

Pythagoras 13, 56, 201

Quine, W.V.O. 50, 62–3

Quintilian 137

Ranke, Leopold von 138, 143, 145, 151–2

Rawley, William 209

Reiss, H. 208

Rickert, Heinrich 139

Riopelle, A.J. 24

Robespierre, Maximilien 187–8

Rosen, Nathan 57, 63

Rosenthal, Robert 25

Rossi, P. 209

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 186–8

Rubel, Maximilien 208

Rueff, Jacques 154

Russell, Bertrand 56, 108

Rutherford, Ernst 15, 19, 30–1, 102, 117, 164

Sayers, Dorothy L. 145

Scheler, Max 47, 69, 79

Schilpp, Paul A. 23, 33, 150

Schlick, Moritz 67

Schmidt, Alfred 75, 81

Schönberg, Arnold 29

Schrödinger, Erwin 12–13, 18, 25–7, 29, 56, 112, 117, 173

Seleucus 14, 28

Seward, A.C. 111

Shakespeare, William 143

Sharratt, Michael 1

Shearmur, Jeremy 130, 182, 185

Shimony, Abner 63

Siculus, Diodorus 137

Singleton, C.S. 209

Skinner, B.F. 24

Smith, Adam 182

Snow, C.P. 110

Socrates 10, 48, 141, 191, 199, 204–5

Sombart, Werner 143

Sommerfeld, Arnold 15

Spedding, James 208

Spencer, Herbert 1, 8, 10, 22–3, 95, 111

Spengler, Herbert 1

Spinoza, Benedict de 83

Stalin, Joseph 138

Stillinger, Jack 206–7

Streissler, Erich 130

Tarski, Alfred 48, 62, 111, 174–5

Tawney, Richard Henry 209

Taylor, A.J.P. 206

Tenzing Norgay 208

Thales 39–43, 57, 190, 192

Theodosius 138, 146

Thomson, George 139, 151

Thomson, Joseph J. 15, 18–19, 30, 117

Thorpe, William H. 6, 24

Tichý, Pavel 183

Tolstoy, Leo 131

Torricelli, Evangelista 202

Toynbee, Arnold J. 131, 133

Trevor-Roper, Hugh R. 139, 143–4, 151

Ullman, James Ramsey 208

Vajda, S. 111

Verdi, Giuseppe 168

Vigier, J.-P. 57

Wallace, Alfred R. 8

Wallace, William 62

Wartofsky, M.W. 31

Watkins, J. W.N. 119

Watson, James 19

Weber, Max 209

Wenham, Martin 1

Weyl, Hermann 31

Whorf, Benjamin Lee 49–50, 62

Whyte, L.L. 120

Wigner, Eugene 14, 27–8, 31

William III of Orange 142

Wilson, Woodrow 186

Windelband, Wilhelm 139

Wittgenstein, Ludwig 29

Woodger J.H. 62

Xenophanes 39–40, 48, 61–2

Yates, Francis 209

Yukawa, Hideki 19

Zoroaster 39, 87