Scientific Philosophy: Origins and Development

1. Front Matter

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2. Articles: Scientific Philosophy — Origins and Developments

   1. Empiricism in the Vienna Circle and in the Berlin Society for Scientific Philosophy. Recollections and Reflections

      • Carl G. Hempel

      Pages 1-9

   2. Logical Empiricism and the Uniqueness of the Schlick Seminar: A Personal Experience with Consequences

      • Arne Naess

      Pages 11-25

   3. Ludwig’s Apple Tree: On the Philosophical Relations between Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle

      • Jaakko Hintikka

      Pages 27-46

   4. From the Vienna Circle to Harvard Square: The Americanization of a European World Conception

      • Gerald Holton

      Pages 47-73

   5. The Cultural Meaning of Aufbau

      • Peter Galison

      Pages 75-93

   6. The Vienna Circle in France (1935–1937)

      • Antonia Soulez

      Pages 95-112

   7. Marks and Probabilities: Two Ways to Find Causal Structure

      • Nancy Cartwright

      Pages 113-119

   8. From Logical Empiricism to Radical Probabilism

      • Richard Jeffrey

      Pages 121-130

   9. Why the Distinction between Analytic and Synthetic Statements?

      • Henri Lauener

      Pages 131-141

   10. Carnap and Reichenbach on Probability with Neurath the Winner

       • Keith Lehrer

       Pages 143-155

   11. The Synthesis of Logicism and Formalism in Carnap’s Logical Syntax of Language

       • Thomas Oberdan

       Pages 157-168

   12. A New Critique of Freud’s Theory of Dreams

       • Adolf Grünbaum

       Pages 169-191

3. Documentation

   1. Memories of the Vienna Circle Letter to Otto Neurath (1938)

      • Gustav Bergmann

      Pages 193-208

4. Background Study

   1. Wilhelm Neurath’s Opposition to “Materialist” Darwinism

      • Thomas E. Uebel

      Pages 209-228

5. Research Report

   1. Software Support for Isotype — Motivation and System Design

      • Thomas A. Mueck, Martin L. Polaschek

      Pages 229-239

6. Reviews

   1. Jour Fixe der Vernunft. Der Wiener Kreis und die Folgen. Hg. von Paul Kruntorad, unter Mitwirkung von Rudolf Haller und Willy Hochkeppel. (Bd.1 der Veröffentlichungen des Instituts Wiener Kreis, hg. von Friedrich Stadler). Wien: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky 1991. Geier, Manfred, Der Wiener Kreis. Reinbek bei Hamburg: rororo Monographie 1992. Uebel, Thomas E. (Ed.), Rediscovering the Forgotten Vienna Circle. Austrian Studies on Otto Neurath and the Vienna Circle. Dordrecht: Kluwer 1991

      • Camilla R. Nielsen

      Pages 241-245

   2. Uebel, Thomas E., Overcoming Logical Positivism from Within. The Emergence of Neurath’s Naturalism in the Vienna Circle’s Protocol Sentence Debate. Amsterdam: Rodopi 1992. (Studien zur österreichischen Philosophie, Band XVII)

      • Eckehart Köhler

      Pages 246-248

   3. Coffa, Alberto J., The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap: To the Vienna Station. Ed. by Linda Wessels. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1991, xi + 445pp

      • Thomas Oberdan

      Pages 249-250

   4. Dear Carnap, Dear Van. W. V. Quine and Rudolf Carnap. The Quine-Carnap Correspondence and Related Work. Ed., with an Introduction by Richard Creath. Berkeley-Los Angeles-London: University of California Press 1990, xv + 384 pp

      • Thomas E. Uebel

      Pages 251-254

Scientific Philosophy: Origins and Development is the first Yearbook of the Vienna Circle Institute, which was founded in October 1991. The book contains original contributions to an international symposium which was the first public event to be organised by the Institute: `Vienna--Berlin--Prague: The Rise of Scientific Philosophy: The Centenaries of Rudolf Carnap, Hans Reichenbach and Edgar Zilsel.'
The first section of the book - `Scientific Philosophy - Origins and Developments' reveals the extent of scientific communication in the inter-War years between these great metropolitan centres, as well as presenting systematic investigations into the relevance of the heritage of the Vienna Circle to contemporary research and philosophy. This section offers a new paradigm for scientific philosophy, one which contrasts with the historiographical received view of logical empiricism. Support for this re-evaluation is offered in the second section, which contains, for the first time in English translation, Gustav Bergmann's recollections of the Vienna Circle, and an historical study of political economist Wilhelm Neurath, Otto Neurath's father.
The third section gives a report on current computer-based research which documents the relevance of Otto Neurath's `Vienna method of pictorial statistics', or `Isotypes'. A review section describes new publications on Neurath and the Vienna Circle, as well anthologies relevant to Viennese philosophy and its history, setting them in their wider cultural and political perspective. Finally, a description is given of the Vienna Circle Institute and its activities since its foundation, as well as of its plans for the future.

• Berlin
• English
• Karl R. Popper
• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Paul Feyerabend
• Rudolf Carnap
• Symposium
• communication
• experience
• language
• logical positivism
• organ
• probability
• science
• time

• Institut ‘Wiener Kreis’, Vienna, Austria

  Friedrich Stadler

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