How the Cold War transformed philosophy of science : to the icy slopes of logic /

This intriguing and ground-breaking book is the first in-depth study of the development of philosophy of science in the United States during the Cold War. It documents the political vitality of logical empiricism and Otto Neurath's Unity of Science Movement when these projects emigrated to the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reisch, George A., 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Temas:
1900-1999
Science > Philosophy > History > 20th century.
Cold War > Influence.
Logical positivism.
Positivisme logique.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Intellectual life
Logical positivism
Science > Philosophy
War > Influence
United States > Intellectual life > 20th century.
États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • An introduction to logical empiricism and the unity of science movement in the cold war
  • Otto Neurath, Charles Morris, Rudolf Carnap, and Philipp Frank: political philosophers of science
  • Leftist philosophy of science in America and the reception of logical empiricism in New York City
  • "Doomed in advance to defeat?" John Dewey on reductionism, values, and the international encyclopedia of unified science
  • Red philosophy of science: Blumberg, Malisoff, Somerville, and early philosophy of science
  • The view from the left:logical empiricism and communist philosophers
  • The view from the far left:logical empiricism and communist philosophers
  • Postwar disillusionment, anti-intellectualism, and the values debate
  • Horace Kallen's attack on the unity of science
  • Creeping totalitarianism, creeping scholasticism: Neurath, Frank, and the trouble with semantics
  • Frank's Neurathian crusade: science, englightenment, and values
  • "A very fertile field for investigation": anticollectivism and anticommunism in popular and academic culture
  • Anticommunist investigations, loyalty oaths, and the wrath of sidney hook
  • Competing programs for postwar philosophy of science
  • Freedom celebrated: the professional decline of Philipp Frank and the unity of science movement
  • The marginalization of Charles Morris
  • Values, Axioms, and the icy slopes of logic
  • Professionalism, power, and what might have been.

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