Intellectual tradition

Science and scientific thought

Texts in which method, evidence, and representations of the world also reshape philosophical questions.

Thinkers
2
Works
10
Passages
682
Concepts
124

Origins, practices, and debates

Science is not presented here as one philosophical movement. Einstein’s texts show how scientific practice engages questions of method, representation, responsibility, and culture.

This page separates scientific results, philosophical commentary, and later uses. Connections to ancient concepts are proposed when sources support them, not from an attractive analogy alone.

Period: Modern and contemporary era

Thinkers in this tradition on Prokopton42

Works to read

  1. Fundamental Ideas and Problems of the Theory of Relativity, Nobel LectureAlbert Einstein · 14 passages
  2. Geometry and Experience, French TranslationAlbert Einstein · 18 passages
  3. Relativity: The Special and General Theory, German EditionAlbert Einstein · 76 passages
  4. Relativity: The Special and General Theory, English TranslationAlbert Einstein · 105 passages
  5. Sidelights on RelativityAlbert Einstein · 27 passages
  6. The Born-Einstein Letters: Einstein’s LettersAlbert Einstein · 127 passages
  7. The Meaning of RelativityAlbert Einstein · 79 passages
  8. The Principle of Relativity: Selected Papers by EinsteinAlbert Einstein · 63 passages
  9. The World As I See ItAlbert Einstein · 169 passages
  10. Why War? Einstein’s Letter to FreudAlbert Einstein · 4 passages