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Prilozi za istraživanje hrvatske filozofske baštine, Vol. 45. No. 1 (89), 2019.

Original scientific paper

On Max Planck’s lecture »The Meaning and Limits of Exact Science« in Zagreb, 15 September 1942

Boris Kožnjak orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-3034-9292 ; Institut za filozofiju, Zagreb, Hrvatska

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Abstract

In this paper I analyze in Croatian historiography a relatively poorly reflected visit of Max Planck to Zagreb in the period 14 – 17 September 1942, during which he delivered the lecture entitled »The Meaning and Limits of Exact Science« at the Faculty of Engineering in Zagreb. The offered analysis is not merely a new factography of the event, reconstructed on the basis of hitherto unrevealed archival material, but also a consideration of Planck’s visit and lecture in a wider framework, both historical and personal, as well as ideological, philosophical and worldview–related.

Keywords

Max Planck; science; limits of science; world picture; worldview; positivism; metaphysical realism; uranium machine; ethics of science; Pius XII; Miroslav Krleža; Ivan Supek; Danijel Uvanović

Hrčak ID:

240934

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/240934

Publication date:

25.6.2019.

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