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This text is aimed at scholars, researchers and students in history and philosophy of science focusing on logical empiricism and analytic philosophy (of science). It: provides historical and systematic research; deals with the influence and impact of the Vienna Circle/logical empiricism on the philosophy of science; explores the intellectual context of this scientific philosophy; unites contributions by renowned scholars and a younger generation of philosophers; focuses on main figures and peripheral adherents; features crucial issues of logical empiricism; documents the activities of the Vienna Circle Institute; and includes reviews on related topics.

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Author:   F. Stadler
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   2003 ed.
Volume:   10
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   2.380kg
ISBN:  

9781402012693

ISBN 10:   1402012691
Pages:   427
Publication Date:   31 July 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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Table of Contents

What is the Vienna Circle?.- What is the Vienna Circle?.- Origins and History.- Pluralism of Tenable World Views.- On the Formation of Logical Empiricism.- Bolzano’s Account of Justification.- Kantian Metaphysics and Hertzian Mechanics.- Moritz Schlick.- Moritz Schlick’s Idea of Non-territorial States.- An Unknown Side of Moritz Schlick’s Intellectual Biography: The Reviews for the “Vierteljahrschrift Für Wissenschaftliche Philosophie und Soziologie” (1911–1916).- Between Meaning and Demarcation.- “Let’s Talk about Flourishing!” — Moritz Schlick and the Non-cognitive Foundation of Virtue Ethics.- Hans Reichenbach.- Coordination and Convention in Hans Reichenbach’s Philosophy of Space.- Reichenbach’s ?-Definition of Simultaneity in Historical and Philosophical Perspective.- Other Proponents and Periphery.- Towards a Physicalistic Attitude.- Logical Empiricism and Phenomenology: Felix Kaufmann.- Béla von Juhos and the Concept of “Konstatierungen”.- Wittgenstein’s Constructivization of Euler’s Proof of the Infinity of Primes.- Quine’S Historical Argument for Epistemology Naturalized.- Unity and Plurality.- Two Uses of Unification.- Unity and Plurality in the Concept of Causation.- Edgar Zilsel’s Research Programme: Unity of Science as an Empirical Problem.- Contexts of Science.- Criticizing a Difference of Contexts — On Reichenbach’S Distincition Between “Context of Discovery” and “Context of Justification”.- Contextualizing an Epistemological Issue: The Case of Error in Experiment.- The Contexts of Scientific Justification. Some Reflections on the Relation Between Epistemological Contextualism and Philosophy of Science.- Epistemology.- Modal Skepticism. Philosophical Thought Experiments and Modal Epistemology.- Structureand Heuristic: In Praise of Structural Reallism in the Case of Niels Bohr.- Ethics.- The Neutrality of Meta-Ethics Revisited — How to Draw on Einstein and the Vienna Circle in Developing an Adequate Account of Morals.- Women of Logical Empiricism.- No Woman, No Try? — Else Frenkel-Brunswik and the Project of Integrating Psychoanalysis into the Unity of Science.- Susan Stebbing on Cambridge and Vienna Analysis.- Susan Stebbing’s Criticism of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus.- Rose Rand: a Woman in Logic.- Report — Documentation.- Logical Positivism in Russia.

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