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Unified Science

The Vienna Circle Monograph Series originally edited by Otto Neurath, now in an English edition

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  • © 1987

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  1. Rainer Hegselmann
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  2. Hans Kaal
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  3. Brian McGuinness
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Part of the book series: Vienna Circle Collection (VICC, volume 19)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. The Monographs

    1. Unified Science and Psychology

      • Otto Neurath
      Pages 1-23

    2. Logic, Mathematics, and Knowledge of Nature

      • Hans Hahn
      Pages 24-45

    3. The Task of the Logic of Science

      • Rudolf Carnap
      Pages 46-66

    4. What is Meant by a Rational Economic Theory?

      • Otto Neurath
      Pages 67-109

    5. The Fall of Mechanistic Physics

      • Philipp Frank
      Pages 110-129

    6. Towards an Encylopedia of Unified Science

      • Otto Neurath, Egon Brunswik, Clark L. Hull, Gerrit Mannoury, J. H. Woodger
      Pages 130-165

    7. Ernst Mach and the Scientific Conception of the World

      • Richard Von Mises
      Pages 166-190

    8. Interpretation

      • Heinrich Gomperz
      Pages 191-272

  3. Back Matter

    Pages 273-306
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a priori, and what is more, to a rejection based ultimately on a posteriori findings; in other words, the "pure" science of nature in Kant's sense of the term had proved to be, not only not pure, but even false. As for logic and mathematics, the decisive works of Frege, Russell, and White­ head suggested two conclusions: first, that it was possible to construct mathematics on the basis of logic (logicism), and secondly, that logical propositions had an irrevocably analytic status. But within the frame­ work of logicism, the status of logical propositions is passed on to mathematical ones, and mathematical propositions are therefore also conceived of as analytic. All this creates a situation where the existential presupposition contained in the Kantian question about the possibility of judgements that are both synthetic and a priori must, it seems, be rejected as false. But to drop this presupposition is, at the same time, to strike at the very core of Kant's programme of putting the natural sciences on a philosophical foundation. The failure of the modern attempt to do so suggests at the same time a reversal of the relationship between philosophy and the individual sciences: it is not the task of philosophy to meddle with the foundations of the individual sciences; being the less successful discipline, its task is rather to seek guidance from the principles of rationality operative in the individual sciences.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Unified Science

  • Book Subtitle: The Vienna Circle Monograph Series originally edited by Otto Neurath, now in an English edition

  • Editors: Rainer Hegselmann, Hans Kaal, Brian McGuinness

  • Series Title: Vienna Circle Collection

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3865-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1987

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2484-7Published: 31 October 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8218-1Published: 19 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-3865-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 306

  • Additional Information: Originally published in German

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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