Overview
- A detailed and in-depth investigation of the hitherto neglected interaction between Central European Logical Empiricism on the one hand and important philosophers and scientists in the Nordic countries on the other hand
- Involving contemporary witnesses (Arne Næss, Jaakko Hintikka)
- An account of the continuity and further development of this interaction in the Cold War period after World War II
Part of the book series: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook (VCIY, volume 14)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Vienna Circle in the Nordic Countries
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General Part
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Back Matter
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About this book
The rise of scientific (analytic) philosophy since the turn of the twentieth century is linked to the philosophical interaction between, on the one hand, Ernst Mach, the Vienna Circle around Moritz Schlick and Otto Neurath, the Berlin Group (Hans Reichenbach, Carl G. Hempel), and the Prague Group (Rudolf Carnap, Philipp Frank), and, on the other, philosophers and scientists in Denmark (Niels Bohr, Joergen Joergensen), Finland (Eino Kaila, Georg Henrik von Wright and their disciples), Norway (Arne Næss and his students), and Sweden (Åke Petzäll, the journal Theoria and a younger generation of philosophers in Uppsala). In addition, the pure theory of law of Hans Kelsen achieved wide dissemination in the Nordic countries (through, for example, Alf Ross). One of the key events in the relations between the Central European philosophers and those of the Nordic countries was the Second International Congress for the Unity of Science which was arranged in Copenhagen in 1936.
Besides considering the interactions of these groups, the book also pays special attention to their interactions, in the context of the Cold War period following the Second World War, with the so-called Third Vienna Circle and with the Forum Alpbach/Austrian College around Viktor Kraft and Bela Juhos (along with Ludwig Wittgenstein and Paul Feyerabend), where the issues of (philosophical and scientific) realism and "psychologism"—the relationship between psychology and philosophy—were matters of controversy.
By comparison with the more extensively investigated and better known transatlantic transfer and transformation of "positivism" and logical empiricism, the developments outlined above remain
neglected and marginalized topics in historiography. The symposium aims to reveal the remarkable continuity of the philosophical enlightened "Nordic Connection". We intend to shed light on this forgotten communication and to reconstruct these hidden scholarly networks from anhistorical and logical point of view, thereby evaluating their significance for today’s research.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“This volume on the Vienna Circle’s influence in the Nordic countries gives a very interesting presentation of an almost forgotten landmark. … The volume here reviewed, dedicated to Arne Naess, is intended to fill the historical gaps and provide a more complete picture of this rich network, which even the Second World War was unable to destroy.” (Carlo Penco, Nordicum-Mediterraneum, Vol. 8 (1), 2013)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Vienna Circle in the Nordic Countries.
Book Subtitle: Networks and Transformations of Logical Empiricism
Editors: Juha Manninen, Friedrich Stadler
Series Title: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3683-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-3682-7Published: 22 October 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3062-5Published: 14 March 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-3683-4Published: 07 November 2009
Series ISSN: 0929-6328
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1818
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 322
Topics: Logic, Philosophy, general, History of Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Science