Overview
- Introduces new perspectives on Neurath’s life and works
- Collates the work of leading experts on Neurath and logical empiricism
- Uses archive materials to present a comprehensive study on Neurath
- Discusses all Neurath’s works, from the well-known to almost-forgotten projects
Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 336)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Otto Neurath: Life and Work
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Front Matter
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Science, Society, and Method
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Keywords
- Otto Neurath
- Logical Empiricism
- Vienna Circle
- Unified Science
- Pictorial Education
- History of Analytic Philosophy
- Isotype
- Practice of Seeing
- History of Optics
- Theory Classification
- Semantic Truth
- Neurath's Syntacticism
- Antimetaphysical Metaphysics
- Multiplicity and Unity
- Meyer Shapiro
- First Vienna Circle
- Applying Utopias
About this book
This highly readable book is a collection of critical papers on Otto Neurath (1882-1945). It comprehensively re-examines Neurath’s scientific, philosophical and educational contributions from a range of standpoints including historical, sociological and problem-oriented perspectives. Leading Neurath scholars disentangle and connect Neurath’s works, ideas and ideals and evaluate them both in their original socio-historical context and in contemporary philosophical debates. Readers will discover a new critical understanding.
Drawing on archive materials, essays discuss not only Neurath’s better-known works from lesser-known perspectives, but also his lesser-known works from the better-known perspective of their place in his overall philosophical oeuvre. Reflecting the full range of Neurath's work, this volume has a broad appeal. Besides scholars and researchers interested in Neurath, Carnap, the Vienna Circle, work on logical empiricism and the history and philosophy of science, this book will also appeal to graduate students in philosophy, sociology, history and education. Readers will find Neurath’s thoughts described and evaluated in an accessible manner, making it a good read for those beyond the academic world such as social leaders and activists.
The book includes the edited 1940-45 Neurath-Carnap correspondence and the English translation of Neurath's logic papers.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Adam Tamas Tuboly is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He works mainly on the history of philosophy of science, especially on the history and significance of logical empiricism. He edited a special issue on the life and work of Philipp Frank (Studies in East European Thought, 2017), and a volume on Logical Empiricism and the Physical Sciences: From Philosophy of Nature to Philosophy of Physics(with Sebastian Lutz, Routledge, forthcoming). He works now on a monograph about Otto Neurath’s years in England and their relevance for the history and sociology of philosophy (Neurath in England: The Planned Reconstruction of Logical Empiricism).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neurath Reconsidered
Book Subtitle: New Sources and Perspectives
Editors: Jordi Cat, Adam Tamas Tuboly
Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02128-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-02127-6Published: 22 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-02128-3Published: 12 February 2019
Series ISSN: 0068-0346
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 706
Number of Illustrations: 134 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Science, History of Philosophy, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Analytic Philosophy