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Philosophical Papers 1913–1946

With a Bibliography of Neurath in English

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Authors:
  1. Otto Neurath
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Editors:
  1. Robert Sonné Cohen

    1. Boston University, Boston, USA

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  2. Marie Neurath
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Part of the book series: Vienna Circle Collection (VICC, volume 16)

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. The Lost Wanderers of Descartes and the Auxiliary Motive

    • Otto Neurath
    Pages 1-12

  3. On the Classification of Systems of Hypotheses

    • Otto Neurath
    Pages 13-31

  4. Ways of the Scientific World-Conception

    • Otto Neurath
    Pages 32-47

  5. Physicalism: The Philosophy of the Viennese Circle

    • Otto Neurath
    Pages 48-51

  6. Physicalism

    • Otto Neurath
    Pages 52-57

  7. Sociology in the Framework of Physicalism

    • Otto Neurath
    Pages 58-90

  8. Protocol Statements

    • Otto Neurath
    Pages 91-99

  9. Radical Physicalism and the ‘Real World’

    • Otto Neurath
    Pages 100-114

  10. The Unity of Science as a Task

    • Otto Neurath
    Pages 115-120

  11. Pseudorationalism of Falsification

    • Otto Neurath
    Pages 121-131

  12. Individual Sciences, Unified Science, Pseudorationalism

    • Otto Neurath
    Pages 132-138

  13. An International Encyclopedia of Unified Science

    • Otto Neurath
    Pages 139-144

  14. Encyclopedia as ‘Model’

    • Otto Neurath
    Pages 145-158

  15. Physicalism and the Investigation of Knowledge

    • Otto Neurath
    Pages 159-171

  16. Unified Science and Its Encyclopedia

    • Otto Neurath
    Pages 172-182

  17. The Concept of ‘Type’ in the Light of Modern Logic

    • Otto Neurath
    Pages 183-188

  18. The New Encyclopedia of Scientific Empiricism

    • Otto Neurath
    Pages 189-199

  19. The Departmentalization of Unified Science

    • Otto Neurath
    Pages 200-205

  20. Comments on the Papers by Black, Kokoszyńska, Williams

    • Otto Neurath
    Pages 206-208
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About this book

The philosophical writings of Otto Neurath, and their central themes, have been described many times, by Carnap in his authobiographical essay, by Ayer and Morris and Kraft decades ago, by Haller and Hegselmann and Nemeth and others in recent years. How extraordinary Neurath's insights were, even when they perhaps were more to be seen as conjectures, aperfus, philosophical hypotheses, tools to be taken up and used in the practical workshop of life; and how prescient he was. A few examples may be helpful: (1) Neurath's 1912 lecture on the conceptual critique of the idea of a pleasure maximum [ON 50] substantially anticipates the development of aspects of analytical ethics in mid-century. (2) Neurath's 1915 paper on alternative hypotheses, and systems of hypotheses, within the science of physical optics [ON 81] gives a lucid account of the historically-developed clashing theories of light, their un­ realized further possibilities, and the implied contingencies of theory survival in science, all within his framework that antedates not only the quite similar work of Kuhn so many years later but also of the Vienna Circle too. (3) Neurath's subsequent paper of 1916 investigates the inadequacies of various attempts to classify systems of hypotheses [ON 82, and this volume], and sets forth a pioneering conception of the metatheoretical task of scientific philosophy.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Boston University, Boston, USA

    Robert Sonné Cohen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Philosophical Papers 1913–1946

  • Book Subtitle: With a Bibliography of Neurath in English

  • Authors: Otto Neurath

  • Editors: Robert Sonné Cohen, Marie Neurath

  • Series Title: Vienna Circle Collection

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6995-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1983

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1483-1Published: 30 April 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-6997-1Published: 12 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-6995-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 268

  • Additional Information: Originally published in German

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, History, general, Philosophy of the Social Sciences

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