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  • 9 - Holding the Hand of History

  • Edited by John Preston, University of Reading
  • Book:
    Interpreting Mach
    Published online:
    05 March 2021
    Print publication:
    18 March 2021, pp 164-183

  • Summary

    I analyse the relation of two important doctrines of Ernst Mach’s epistemology – namely the theory of the elements, exposed in The Analysis of Sensations, and the economy of thought, mainly explored in Knowledge and Error and elsewhere – to his historical-critical approach. After discussing Erwin Hiebert’s seminal work on Mach’s philosophical use of the history of science, I defend the thesis that there is a more profound, structural relationship between Mach’s conception of history and the anti-metaphysical remarks which open The Analysis of Sensations and introduce his theory of the elements. Finally, I contend that this can provide novel insights into the doctrine of the economy of thought.