Research Catalog

Title

Otto Neurath : philosophy between science and politics / Nancy Cartwright, Jordi Cat, Lola Fleck and Thomas E. Uebel.

Publication

New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Cartwright, Nancy
• Cat, Jordi
• Fleck, Lola
• Uebel, Thomas E. (Thomas Ernst), 1952-
• Anduschus, Martin

Description

xii, 288 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

An international team of four authors, led by distinguished philosopher of science, Nancy Cartwright, and leading scholar of the Vienna Circle, Thomas E. Uebel, have produced this lucid and elegant study of a much-neglected figure. The book, which depicts Neurath's science in the political, economic and intellectual milieu in which it was practised, is divided into three sections: Neurath's biographical background and the socio-political context of his economic ideas; the development of his theory of science; and his legacy as illustrated by his contemporaneous involvement in academic and political debates. Coinciding with the renewal of interest in logical positivism, this is a timely publication which will redress a current imbalance in the history and philosophy of science, as well as making a major contribution to our understanding of the intellectual life of Austro-Germany in the inter-war years.

Series Statement

Ideas in context ; 38

Uniform Title

Ideas in context ; 38.

Subject

• Neurath, Otto, 1882-1945
• Neurath, Otto, 1882-1945
• Neurath, Otto, (1882-1945) > Critique et interprétation
• Science > Philosophy
• Science and state
• Wetenschapsfilosofie
• Context

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-282) and index.

Contents

pt. 1. A Life between science and politics. 1.1. Before Munich. 1.2. The socialisation debate. 1.3. In the Bavarian revolution. 1.4. In Red Vienna. 1.5. Exile in The Hague and Oxford -- pt. 2. On Neurath's Boat. 2.1. The Boat: Neurath's image of knowledge. 2.2. In the first Vienna Circle. 2.3. From the Duhem thesis to the Neurath principle. 2.4. Rationality without foundations. 2.5. A theory of scientific discourse. 2.6. Towards a theory of practice -- pt. 3. Unity on the earthly plane. 3.1. Two stories with a common theme. 3.2. Science: the stock of instruments. 3.3. The attack on method. 3.4. Where Ballungen come from. 3.5. Negotiation, not regulation.

ISBN

• 0521451744
• 9780521451741

LCCN

95008505

OCLC

• ocm32313863
• 32313863
• SCSB-2080118

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library