Rediscovering the Forgotten Vienna Circle: Austrian Studies on Otto Neurath and the Vienna Circle

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Otto Neurath and the Neurath Reception: Puzzle and Promise....Pages 3-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
On Otto Neurath....Pages 25-31
History and the System of Science in Otto Neurath....Pages 33-40
On the Historiography of Austrian Philosophy....Pages 41-50
Aspects of the Social Background and Position of the Vienna Circle at the University of Vienna....Pages 51-77
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
The Philosopher Otto Neurath....Pages 81-94
The First Vienna Circle....Pages 95-108
On Neurath’s Writings on Logic, Ethics and Physics....Pages 109-115
The Neurath Principle: Its Grounds and Consequences....Pages 117-129
Metaphysics in the Vienna Circle....Pages 131-142
Ethics and the Problem of Value in the Vienna Circle....Pages 143-157
Otto Neurath—Moritz Schlick: On the Philosophical and Political Antagonisms in the Vienna Circle....Pages 159-168
Neurath Contra Schlick. On the Discussion of Truth in the Vienna Circle....Pages 169-174
On Neurath’s Empiricism and His Critique of Empiricism....Pages 175-190
Two Ways of Experiential Justification....Pages 191-201
Otto Neurath’s Contribution to the Theory of the Social Sciences....Pages 203-208
Sociological Thought with Otto Neurath....Pages 209-222
Neurath’s Theory of Pictorial-Statistical Representation....Pages 223-251
Front Matter....Pages 253-253
Otto Neurath: Encyclopedist, Adult Educationalist and School Reformer....Pages 255-264
Otto Neurath and Adult Education: Unity of Science, Materialism and Comprehensive Enlightenment....Pages 265-274
Front Matter....Pages 253-253
The Unity of Planned Economy and the Unity of Science....Pages 275-283
Otto Neurath’s Utopias — The Will to Hope....Pages 285-292
Back Matter....Pages 293-331