Presentation of the English translation of Ettore Majorana's paper: The value of statistical laws in physics and social sciences

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosario Nunzio Mantegna *
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Statistical Laws

scholarly journals Communication & Society: A Critical Political Economy Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 357-405
Author(s):  
Horst Holzer
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Critical Sociology ◽  
Social Forms ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Sociology Of Communication ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
The Relationship

This paper presents the English translation of one of Horst Holzer’s works on communication and society. Holzer elaborates foundations of a critical sociology of communication(s) that studies the relationship of communication and society based on the approach of critical political economy. He shows that such an approach relates communication and production, communication and capitalism; communication, ideology and fetishism; and situates communication in the context of social struggles for alternatives to capitalist social forms. The paper is followed by a postface in which Christian Fuchs contemplates why Holzer’s approach has been largely “forgotten” in the German social sciences and media and communication studies, in turn stressing the continued relevance of Holzer’s theory today.

scholarly journals Communication & Society: A Critical Political Economy Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 357-405
Author(s):  
Horst Holzer
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Critical Sociology ◽  
Social Forms ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Sociology Of Communication ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
The Relationship

This paper presents the English translation of one of Horst Holzer’s works on communication and society. Holzer elaborates foundations of a critical sociology of communication(s) that studies the relationship of communication and society based on the approach of critical political economy. He shows that such an approach relates communication and production, communication and capitalism; communication, ideology and fetishism; and situates communication in the context of social struggles for alternatives to capitalist social forms. The paper is followed by a postface in which Christian Fuchs contemplates why Holzer’s approach has been largely “forgotten” in the German social sciences and media and communication studies, in turn stressing the continued relevance of Holzer’s theory today.

scholarly journals E. Schrödinger’s 1931 paper “On the Reversal of the Laws of Nature” [“Über die Umkehrung der Naturgesetze”, Sitzungsberichte der preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, physikalisch-mathematische Klasse, 8 N9 144–153]

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raphaël Chetrite ◽  
Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi ◽  
Kay Schwieger
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Diffusion Process ◽  
Markov Processes ◽  
Time Reversal ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Laws Of Nature ◽  
Detailed Balance ◽  
Interpretations Of Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Statistical Laws ◽  
Reciprocal Processes

AbstractWe present an English translation of Erwin Schrödinger’s paper on “On the Reversal of the Laws of Nature‘’. In this paper, Schrödinger analyses the idea of time reversal of a diffusion process. Schrödinger’s paper acted as a prominent source of inspiration for the works of Bernstein on reciprocal processes and of Kolmogorov on time reversal properties of Markov processes and detailed balance. The ideas outlined by Schrödinger also inspired the development of probabilistic interpretations of quantum mechanics by Fényes, Nelson and others as well as the notion of “Euclidean Quantum Mechanics” as probabilistic analogue of quantization. In the second part of the paper, Schrödinger discusses the relation between time reversal and statistical laws of physics. We emphasize in our commentary the relevance of Schrödinger’s intuitions for contemporary developments in statistical nano-physics.

scholarly journals Exchanges with the Humanities

1981 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 82-85
Author(s):  
Derek Russell Davis
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Case Histories ◽  
Keen Interest ◽  
Selection Of

Psychiatrists, who in their treatment of mental disorder apply theories, concepts and method drawn from many branches of knowledge, have shown remarkably little interest in the humanities. Distinct from the natural and social sciences, these are concerned with human behaviour and culture. Their neglect contrasts with the keen interest in psychopathology shown in many humanities departments in universities, from which flows a stream of publications on the psychopathology of the famous, writers and artists, and the characters they create. The data on which such studies are based are similar to those making up case-histories, as Jaspers (1913–46; English translation 1963) pointed out, although the selection of the latter tends to be more focussed by a theory.

Spinoza's not so quiet influence: the Theological-political treatise 350 years on

2020 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 1081-1088
Author(s):  
Charlotte Epstein
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
English Translation ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Original Publication ◽  
Political Modernity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Human Need ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
350Th Anniversary

Abstract In this review essay I reflect on the centrality of Spinoza's thought to political modernity on the combined occasion of the 350th anniversary of the original publication of his first political treatise, the Tractatus theologico–politicus, and of the publication this year of George Eliot's English translation of Spinoza's Ethics, which had been lying in a drawer for almost a century and a half. His influence is both substantial and methodological. It owes to the singular way in which he calibrated the relationship between reason, or the natural human need to understand, and faith, or the need to believe. But, over a century before the social sciences were invented, Spinoza also laid the foundations for the interpretative methods that would become central to these sciences and to the study of international politics. He remains essential reading for understanding our world.

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