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The Socio-Ethical Dimension of Knowledge

The Mission of Logical Empiricism

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Editors:
  1. Christian Damböck

    1. Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna, Wien, Austria

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  2. Adam Tamas Tuboly

    1. Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, Hungary

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  • A new collection dedicated to an underexplored field
  • Brings together a group of younger and well-established scholars on an important topic
  • Treats many socially relevant issues that are hotly debated today

Part of the book series: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook (VCIY, volume 26)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. The Socio-ethical Dimension of Knowledge – The Mission of Logical Empiricism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction: The Socio-ethical Concern of Logical Empiricism

      • Adam Tamas Tuboly
      Pages 3-15

    3. Ethics and Morality in the Vienna Circle

      • Anne Siegetsleitner
      Pages 17-31

    4. The Social Virtue of Science. Motivating Structural Objectivity in Logical Empiricism

      • Alan Richardson
      Pages 33-51

    5. Philosophy (and Wissenschaft) Without Politics? Schlick on Nietzsche, German Idealism, and Militarism

      • Andreas Vrahimis
      Pages 53-84

    6. Schlick on the Meaning of “Good”

      • Gergely Ambrus
      Pages 85-104

    7. Making Logical Positivism Less Logical: The Case of Schlick and von Mises

      • Adam Tamas Tuboly
      Pages 105-125

    8. Leo Apostel and Rudolf Carnap: The Development of Logical Empiricist Ethics in Post-War Europe

      • Fons Dewulf
      Pages 127-147

    9. The Cult of Genius and Its Critics: Edgar Zilsel and Otto Neurath

      • Günther Sandner
      Pages 149-163

    10. Philipp Frank’s Relativism: Presentation, Appreciation, and Critique

      • Philippe Stamenkovic
      Pages 165-194

    11. Alternative Facts, Fake News, Pseudoscience – New Challenges for a Scientific World-View. An Essay

      • Hans-Joachim Dahms
      Pages 195-216

  3. General Part

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217
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    2. Viennese Lessons: Wittgenstein, Carnap, and Schlick

      • Scott Soames
      Pages 219-234

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 257-261
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About this book

This book studies how the relationship between philosophy, morality, politics, and science was conceived in the Vienna Circle and how this group of philosophers tried to position science as an antidote to totalitarianism and irrationalism.  This leads to investigation of the still understudied views of the Vienna Circle on moral philosophy, meta-ethics, and the relationship between philosophy of science and politics.  Including papers from an international group of scholars, The Socio-ethical Dimension of Knowledge: The Mission of Logical Empiricism addresses these topics and makes them available to scholars in the field of history of philosophy of science.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna, Wien, Austria

    Christian Damböck

  • Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, Hungary

    Adam Tamas Tuboly

About the editors

Adam Tamas Tuboly is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Research Center for the Humanities and research fellow at the Institute of Transdisciplinary Discoveries, Medical School, University of Pécs. He works on the history of logical empiricism and writes now a biographical volume on Otto Neurath and one on Philipp Frank.

Christian Damböck is a postdoc researcher at the Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna. He is recently working on an edition of the diaries of Rudolf Carnap.



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