- I just purchased a signed copy of Forces and Fields: A Study of Action at a Distance in the History of Physics, Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1961. I was struck by three rare attributes that distinguish her work:
1. her grasp of the power and limits of abstraction to provide a framework for perceived realities;
2. her ability to craft such a framework and apply it as a selective lens for revealing historical relations; and
3. her ability to find expression for her perceptions after the manner of Locke: "...gentle steps, things ascend upwards in degrees of perfection."
Thank you for your work in maintaining a tribute worthy of such passionate inspiration.Reading Mary Hesse changed the way I understand the world and society. A profoundly earthshattering experience. - Mark Estes (Austin, Texas) (estesmd@gmail.com), 11 April 2010
- I have read Mary Hesse's books and have been profoudly influenced by her. I have included something about her in one of my books.
- Calvin S. Kalman (Calvin.Kalman@concordia.ca), 21 October 2009
- Reading Mary Hesse changed the way I understand the world and society. A profoundly earthshattering experience.
- Erik Ringmar (e.ringmar@lse.ac.uk), 19 March 2006
- Ho letto della prof. Hesse il libro "Modelli e analogie nella scienza"; di non facile comprensione ma di grande interesse!
- Grazie.
- Giuseppe Canducci (giuseppe.canducci@sicurmail.it), 20 January 2006
- As a science teacher, I appreciate the statement made in "Science and the Human Imagination" which states,"God is in Heaven and man is upon the earth...and men must not presume to the transcendence and objectivity of God." The statement assists us in forming our understanding of the place of Quantum physics. Thank you.
- Mrs. Lory Pyle Hundt (jmvdm@redeemer.on.ca), 2 May 2005
- I dont kno who this site is about but i think its great that people have made this site! She obviously has done somthing great! This is so mad!
- K. Eagleton, 13 February 2005
- Nice page
- John (john@dwatch.de), 21 January 2005
- Estou estudando analogias na Quimica com alguns artigos de Mary Hesse. Gostaria de receber mais informações sobre o livro Models and Analogies in Science.
- Um abraço
- Jorge Luis Freitas, aluno do Mestrado em Ensino, Filosofia e Historia da Ciência, UFBa-BAHIA-BRASIL (jlffreitas@hotmail.com), 24 November 2004
- Dr. Jitse van der Meer (lory.hundt@bereanacademy.org), 26 November 2003
- For many years Mary Hesse has been my guide in things philosophical. I'm not sure that I always agree with her, but then again I have difficulty understanding many of the things she writes about. I'd like to read about her views on miracles, but haven't got my hands on those writings where she deals with such things.
- I'm really pleased to see this site dedicated to her work.
- Best wishes,
- Graham Eagleton (eagleton_graham@yahoo.com), 16 November 2003
- I was Mary's advisee in the MPhil program in HPS at Cambs in 1980-81; she supervised my master's thesis criticizing the pragmatic antirealism of Davidson and Rorty (the latter an undergraduate teacher of mine). She was unfailingly fair and tough-minded, an excellent teacher with a dry sense of humor. At the time I was rather red, and I recall at one point, when I was expressing incredulity that anyone could accept the Davidson-Rorty conclusion that most of our beliefs must be true, she remarked that there's one thing that Christians and Marxists share, which is an appreciation for the limitless capacity of humans for error. She invited me to stay on for the PhD, but I returned to the US to complete my degree at Michigan, and I lost contact with her. I have always remembered her with affection and appreciation, and am pleased to see that someone has set up a website in her honor.
- Justin Schwartz, Esq. (PhD, JD) (jkschw@hotmail.com), 11 July 2003
- All best wishes, Mary, for many more healthy and productive years. You are a model for us all.
- Menachem Fisch (fisch@post.tau.ac.il), 22 May 2003
- Live long and prosper.
- Joseph Agassi (agass@post.tau.ac.il), 5 May 2003
- Best wishes to Miss Hesse, and thanks for this great webpage.
- Hyung Jae Chun (cools2@netian.com), 29 April 2003
- This is a splendid place to visit--informative and inspiring.
- Professor Gerard Smith (gpsmith@med.cornell.edu), 9 April 2003
- John Fox (j.fox@latrobe.edu.au), 7 April 2003
- Mary Hesse is a remarkable thinker, and one who has influenced my own work in Political Science and Political philosophy.
- Joseph Harder (jahpolth@aol.com), 5 April 2003
- Very nice and informative set of web pages. Much new information that I was not previously aware of.
- Dr. Eric Scerri, UCLA (scerri@chem.ucla.edu), 4 April 2003
- Thank you for this beautiful site.
- Prof Ambrogio Fassina (ambrogio.fassina@unipd.it), 4 April 2003
- Best wishes to Prof. Hesse from a grateful reader in theoretical psychology.
- Dr. Marvin McDonald (mcdonald@twu.ca), 4 April 2003
- Her writings are helpful to correlate with models of the mind in which the British Psychoanalytic tradition excels. Very appropriate web site.
- Phyllis Thurstone, MD (pthurstone@aol.com), 6 March 2003
- I remember Miss Hesse at Cambridge in 1972-73, providing some stimulating lectures on philosophical problems in modern physics, and also as a helpful, patient and wise counsellor for my (not terribly good) final-year dissertation. I also spent hours in the University Library reading her books Forces and Fields and Science and the Human Imagination.
- She wrote, lectured and talked in a way that conveyed authority and complete conviction, and also a penetrating, almost awe-inspiring, insight into nature and the ways we have of finding out about it.
- Mr Ian Watson (watson_i@downehouse.berks.sch.uk), 8 February 2003
- Luigi Lentini, (Prof., Università "Ca' Foscari" Venezia), 26 October 2002
- Great looking site in honour of a very interesting and admirable person -- thank you!
- Gaz, 21 October 2002
- I've only had time to have a quick look at the website you have made for Mary, but it is a most impressive and attractive project. Thank you for doing this.
- Peter (Prof. Peter Lipton, Head of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge), 19 October 2002