How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science


George. Reisch
Bok Engelsk 2005 · Electronic books.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2005
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1 online resource (436 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 An Introduction to Logical Empiricism and the Unity of Science Movement in the Cold War; The Conventional Wisdom about Logical Empiricism; A New Explanation for the Demise of Logical Empiricism; The Unity of Science Movement and the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science; The International Congresses; The War and the Demise of the Movement; The Unity of Science Movement in the Cold War; To the Icy Slopes of Logic; The Plan of the Book. - 2 Otto Neurath, Charles Morris, Rudolf Carnap, and Philipp FrankOtto Neurath (1882-1945): Philosophy and Politics; Charles Morris (1901-1979): Signs, Symbols, and Diplomacy; Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970): Logic and Humanism; Philipp Frank (1884-1966): Unity of Philosophy and Science; The Socio-Political Agenda of the Unity of Science Movement; 3 Leftist Philosophy of Science in America and the Reception of Logical Empiricism in New York City; A Survey of the 1930s Philosophical Left; Partisan Review, Trotsky, and the Emergence of Anti-Stalinism; The Reception of Otto Neurath in New York City. - A Decade of Philosophy of ScienceEpilogue: Hook versus Somerville; 6 The View from the Left; Lenin versus Mach; Horkheimer's and Marcuse's Attack; Lewis Feuer (d. 2002); Margaret Schlauch (1898-1986); Maurice Cornforth (1909-1980); The Critique from the Left; 7 The View from the Far Left; Philosophy Is the Party; Trotsky: Heretic; Jerome's Survey of Science & Society; Unity of Science in The Communist; Dialectical Materialism; The Landscape of the Left and the Reputation of the Unity of Science Movement; 8 Postwar Disillusionment, Anti-Intellectualism, and the Values Debate. - Kallen's Misinterpretations and Neurath's Growing Frustration. - The Conversion of Sidney HookDisillusionment and Dualism in the Postwar Intellectual World; Diagnoses of the Intellectuals; Public Bullying and Confrontation; The Rediscovery of Values and the Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion; Values and the Critique of Scientism; Popular Antiscientism; The End of Ideology; 9 Horace Kallen's Attack on the Unity of Science; Kallen and His 1939 Paper; Morris and Kallen on Orchestration; Kallen's Worries about Postwar Science; Neurath's First Response; Kallen's First Reply to Neurath (and Neurath's Turkey Dinner). - The Unity of Science Movement and the Liberal Pragmatic LeftOtto Neurath in the Popular Press; Other Battles, Other Alliances: Hutchins, Adler, and Morris; Neo-Thomism and the New York Philosophers; The Russell Affair; The Unifying Agenda; 4 "Doomed in Advance to Defeat"?; Morris's and Neurath's Overtures; The Unity of Science as a Social Problem; Dewey's Theory of Valuation; Science, Values, and Tactics; 5 Red Philosophy of Science; Albert Blumberg (1906-1997); William Malisoff (1895-1947); John Somerville (1905-1994); Rautenstrauch, Schrickel, and Planning. - This intriguing and ground-breaking book is the first in-depth study of the development of philosophy of science in the United States during the Cold War. It documents the political vitality of logical empiricism and Otto Neurath's Unity of Science Movement when these projects emigrated to the US in the 1930s and follows their de-politicization by a convergence of intellectual, cultural and political forces in the 1950s. Students of logical empiricism and the Vienna Circle treat these as strictly intellectual non-political projects. In fact, the refugee philosophers of science were highly acti
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0521546893. - 0521837979. - 9780521546898. - 9780521837972

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