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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Hugo Dingler
| image = Hugo Dingler 481.jpg
| alt = Hugo Dingler
| birth_date = {{birth date|1881|07|07|mf=y}}
| death_date = {{birth date|1954|06|29|mf=y}}
| fields = [[Professor of Natural Philosophy]]
| residence = Munich, Bavaria, Germany
| nationality = German
| known_for = [[Philosophy of Science]]
}}

'''Hugo Albert Emil Hermann Dingler''' studied [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics mathematics], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy philosophy], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics physics] with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Husserl Edmund Husserl], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Klein Felix Klein], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Minkowski Hermann Minkowski], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hilbert David Hilbert], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhem_Roentgen Wilhem Roentgen]. and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woldemar_Voigt Woldemar Voigt] at the universities of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlangen Erlangen], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6ttingen G?ttingen], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich Munich]. He graduated from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Munich University of Munich] with a thesis under [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aurel_Voss&action=edit&redlink=1 Aurel Voss]. He failed to get a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatdozent Privatdozent] position in mathematics at Munich, but was given a position to teach "Methods, Teaching and History of Mathematics." Thus Dingler turned from mathematics to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science philosophy of science]. In [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934 1934] Dingler was dismissed from his teaching position. He told several interviewers that this was because of his favorable writings concerning [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew Jews]. In fact he was dismissed as part of a general retrenchment and not at this time for political reasons. Later his reinstatement was opposed for political reasons, but by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940 1940] he had joined the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi Nazi] Party and was given a teaching position. Of Dingler?s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944 1944] book ''Lehrbuch der Exakten Naturwissenschaften'' only thirty copies survived wartime bombing.

Dingler?s position is usually characterized as "conventionalist" by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper Karl Popper] and others. Sometimes he is called a "radical conventionalist", as by the early [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Carnap Rudolf Carnap]. Dingler himself initially characterized it as "critical conventionalism" to contrast it with the "na?ve conventionalism" of other philosophers such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9 Poincar?], but he himself later ceased to call his position conventionalist. Dingler agrees with the conventionalists that the fundamental assumptions of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometry geometry] and physics are not extracted empirically and cannot be given a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental transcendental] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deduction deduction]. However, Dingler disagrees with conventionalists such as Henri Poincar? in that he does not believe there is freedom to choose alternative assumptions. Dingler believes that one can give a foundation to mathematics and physics by means of operations as building stones. Dingler claims that this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation operational] analysis leads one to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_geometry Euclidean geometry] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtonian_mechanics Newtonian mechanics], which are the only possible results.

Dingler opposed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein Einstein]?s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_theory relativity theory] and was therefore opposed and snubbed by most of the leaders of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany German] physics and mathematics community. This opposition, at least to the theory of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity general relativity] remains in the work of his follower [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lorenzen Paul Lorenzen].

Paul Lorenzen, noted for his work on constructive foundations of mathematics was a follower of Dingler, at least with respect to the foundations of geometry and physics. The so-called Erlangen School of followers and allies of Lorenzen, including [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kuno_Lorenz&action=edit&redlink=1 Kuno Lorenz], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wilhelm_Kamlah&action=edit&redlink=1 Wilhelm Kamlah], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Janich Peter Janich], and more indirectly, [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Juergen_Mittelstrass&action=edit&redlink=1 Juergen Mittelstrass], is thus in large part pursuing a modernized version of Dingler?s program which claims to incorporate [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_relativity relativity], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics quantum theory] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_logic quantum logic]. - Wikipedia

'''Works:'''

* Beitrage zur Kenntnis der infinitesimalen Deformation einer Flaeche, Amorbach, 1907, thesis directed by Aurel Voss.
* Grundlinean einer Kritik und exakten Therie der Wissenschften, 1907.
* Die Grundlagen der Physik: synthetische Prinzipien der mathematischen Naturphilosophie, 1919/1923, 336 S.
* "Kritische Bemerkungen zu den Grundlagen der Relativitaetstheorie," Physikalische Zeitschrift, V21, 1920, 668-675. Reissued as pamphlet, Leipzig, 1921, 29 S.
* Physik und Hypothese, 1921.
* Relativit?tstheorie und ?konomieprinzip, 1922.
* Das Problem des absoluten Raumes, 1923.
* Die Grundgedanken der Machschen Philosophie, 1924.
* Metphysik als Wisenschaft under Primat der Philosophie, Munich, 1926.
* Der Zusammenbruch der Wissenschaft und der Primat der Philosophie, 1926.
* Das Experiment, 1928.
* Der Zusammenbruch der Wissenschaft und der Primat der Philosophie, 1931.
* Philosophie der Logik und Arithmetik, Munich, 1931.
* Geschichte der Naturphilosophie, Berlin, 1932.
* Die Grundlagen der Geometrie: ihre Bedeutung f?r Philosophie, Mathematik, Physik u. Technik, Stuttgart, 1933, 76 S.
* Das System, Munich, 1933.
* Das Handlen im Sinne des hoechsten Zieles, Munich, 1935.
* Die Method der Physik, Munich, 1938.
* Max Planck und die Begr?ndung der sogenannten modernen theoretischen Physik, 1939.
* Vom Tierseele zur Menschenseele, Leipzig, 1941.
* Lehrbuch der Exakten Naturwissenschaften, Berlin, 1944. edited posthumously by Paul Lorenzen as Aufbau der Fundamentalwissenschaften, Munich, 1964.
* Grundriss der methodischen Philosophie, Fuessen, 1949
* Storia filosofica della scienza, 1949.
* Das physikalische Weltbild, 1951.
* Il metodo della ricerca nelle scienze, 1953.
* Geschichte der Naturphilosophie, 1967.
* Die Ergreifung des Wirklichen, Munich 1955. Reprinted, with intro. by Kuno Lorenz and Juergen Mittelstrass, Frankfurt, 1969.
 

==Books==

* 1938 - "[[Die Methode Der Physik]]" ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Dingler Read in full])
* - "[[The Complete Works on CD-ROM]]" ([http://www.infosoftware.de/dingler.htm Read in full])

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