The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism: Re-evaluation and Future Perspectives [Hardcover]

This work is for scholars, researchers and students in history and philosophy of science focusing on Logical Empiricism and analytic philosophy (of science). It provides historical and systematic research and deals with the influence and impact of the Vienna Circle/Logical Empiricism on today's philosophy of science. It also explores the intellectual context of this scientific philosophy and focuses on main figures and peripheral adherents.

A: The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism. What is the Vienna Circle? Some Methodological and Historiographical Answers; F. Stadler. I: Origins and History. Pluralism of Tenable World Views; A. Naess. On the Formation of Logical Empiricism; P. Parrini. Bolzano's Account of Justification; A. Von Duhn. Kantian Metaphysics and Hertzian Mechanics; D.J. Hyder. II: Moritz Schlick. Moritz Schlick's Idea of Non-territorial States; H. Schleichert. An Unknown Side of Moritz Schlick's Intellectual Biography: the Reviews for the 'Vierteljahrschrift f?r wissenschaftliche Philosophie und Soziologie' (191 1-1916); M. Ferrari. Between Meaning and Demarcation; H.J. Wendel. 'Let's Talk about Flourishing!' - Moritz Schlick and the Non-cognitive Foundation of Virtue Ethics; D. Borchers. III: Hans Reichenbach. Coordination and Convention in Hans Reichenbach's Philosophy of Space; C. Klein. Reichenbach's epsilon-Definition of Simultaneity in Historical and Philosophical Perspective; R. Rynasiewicz. IV: Other Proponents and Periphery. Towards a Physicalistic Attitude; J. Manninen. Logical Empiricism and Phenomenology: Felix Kaufmann; W. Huemer. B?la von Juhos and the Concept of 'Konstatierungen'; A. Koterski. Wittgenstein's Constructivization of Euler's Proof of the Infinity of Primes; P. Mancosu, M. Marion. Quine's Historical Argument for Epistemology Naturalized; G. DePierris. V: Unity and Plurality. Two Uses of Unification; E. Sober. Unity and Plurality in the Concept of Causation; C. Hitchcock. Edgar Zilsel's Research Programme:l1