Andrew Mellon Professor of Philosophy of
Science Research Professor of Psychiatry
Chairman, Center for Philosophy of Science
University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
In my concern with the foundations of Einstein's special theory of
relativity, I found great epistemological value in the 1924 German
original of Hans Reichenbach's Axiomatization of the Theory of
Relativity (1969): He endeavored to axiomatize that theory in such a
way that its logically independent physical axioms were so chosen as to
be each more or less separately accessible to test by known or
envisioned experimental results.
Read the remaining part
of Adolf Grünbaum's interview in the book Formal Philosophy
ISBN-10
87-991013-1-9 hardcopy
ISBN-10 87-991013-0-0 paperback
Published by Automatic Press ● VIP, 2005