The Vienna Circle in Czechoslovakia (Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, 23)

Editorial
Contents
Part I: The Vienna Circle in Czechoslovakia – Essays
	Chapter 1: How Philosophers in the Czech Lands Broke Ground for the Vienna Circle
		1.1 Bolzano Mathematician
		1.2 Bolzano’s Logical Construction of the World
			1.2.1 Existence of External Objects
			1.2.2 Perception
		1.3 Bolzano’s Logic
			1.3.1 Abstract Objects: Propositions in themselves
			1.3.2 The System of Extensional Relations Between Propositions
			1.3.3 Deducibility and Probability
		1.4 The Viennese Counterpart: Wittgenstein
		1.5 Bolzano’s Project of Social Reform
		1.6 What About Bolzano’s Metaphysics?
		1.7 Ernst Mach’s Empirical Epistemology
			1.7.1 Unifying Human Knowledge
			1.7.2 What the World Is Composed Of
			1.7.3 Cognition and Representation
			1.7.4 Science in Action
			1.7.5 The “true Master of the Vienna Circle”
		1.8 Thomas Garrigue Masaryk: The Emancipation of Humanity
			1.8.1 The First Philosophical Problem: Suicide
			1.8.2 Under the Banner of Auguste Comte
			1.8.3 Philosophy of Language
			1.8.4 Masaryk, Philosopher of the Revolution
		1.9 Conclusion
	Chapter 2: Why Czech Positivism Could Not Be Absorbed by Logical Positivism
		2.1 Positivist Touches in Czech Herbartism
		2.2 Masaryk’s Philosophy and Positivism
		2.3 Psychology as a Core of Positivism
		2.4 Positivism Revived
		2.5 Conclusion
	Chapter 3: Philipp Frank’s Civic and Intellectual Life in Prague: Investments in Loyalty
		3.1 Ernst Mach as an Intellectual Interlocutor for Philosophical Problems in Science
			3.1.1 The Cleansing Method: Mach’s Skeptical Legacy of Progress in the History of Science
			3.1.2 Mach’s Pragmatist Legacy: The Relativity Principle’s Link with Values
		3.2 Philipp Frank in Prague: Mach’s Legacy Put to Test
			3.2.1 The Fight for Mach’s Heritage in 1914 – The Beginning of Frank’s Academic Profile in Prague
			3.2.2 Lampa’s and Frank’s “Antikritik”
			3.2.3 Tactics and Arguments
		3.3 Situated Knowledge Claims: Values in Science Argument as Frank’s Motivational Resource
		3.4 Lectures and Academic Activities: The Controversy Between the “Critical Realists” and “Logical Empiricists” Reflected in the List of Seminars and Lectures
		3.5 Frank’s Personal Commitments to His Czech Colleagues
		3.6 The Letters
		3.7 The Concept of Loyalty
			3.7.1 What Is the Achievement of the Concept of Loyalty Over the Concept of Identity?
			3.7.2 Two Different Interpretations of Loyalty in the Young Czechoslovakian Republic
		3.8 Conclusion
	Chapter 4: Scientific World Conception on Stage: The Prague Meeting of the German Physicists and Mathematicians
		4.1 Words “Vanished Without a Trace”? Not Quite
		4.2 Backstage: Physics at the German University in Prague
		4.3 Setting the Stage: Fighting the Ignorabimus
		4.4 Von Mises: Escaping the Grip of Laplace’s Demon
		4.5 Interlude on the Big Stage: Rector von Mises Rails Against the Ignorabimus
		4.6 Sommerfeld: Philosophy in the Edge Light
		4.7 Critique: Frank on Containing Teleology and the Ignorabimus
		4.8 Conclusion
	Chapter 5: Rudolf Carnap’s Inferentialism
		5.1 Introduction
		5.2 Logical Syntax of Language
		5.3 Syntax as Approximating Semantics
		5.4 Inferentialism
		5.5 Semantics
		5.6 Incompleteness
		5.7 Semantics vs. Generalized Rules
		5.8 Conclusion
	Chapter 6: Minimum Dwellings: Otto Neurath and Karel Teige on Architecture
		6.1 Against Architectural Formalism
		6.2 Science, Metaphysics and Ideology
		6.3 Doctrines vs. Commitments
	Chapter 7: Arnošt Kolman’s Critique of Mathematical Fetishism
		7.1 Commodity Fetishism in Marx
		7.2 Application of the Concept of Fetishism on Mathematics
		7.3 Pythagorean Fetishism
		7.4 Logical Positivism
		7.5 Logic and Mathematics
		7.6 Critical Assessment of Kolman’s Reception of Logical Positivism
		7.7 Arguments Against Fetishization
		7.8 Kolman in Context
		7.9 Appendix: Mathematical Fetishism Today
	Chapter 8: Igor Hrušovský on Social Sciences
		8.1 Introduction
		8.2 Igor Hrušovský and Scientific Synthesis
		8.3 Philosophy of Biology
		8.4 Explorations in Social Sciences
		8.5 A Short Detour
		8.6 Hrušovský’s Legacy
Part II: The Vienna Circle in Czechoslovakia – Memoirs
	Chapter 9: On Hania Frank
	Chapter 10: Major Contacts with Stimulating Initiatives of Analytical Philosophy and the Vienna Circle
		10.1 Introductory Notes
		10.2 Major Contributions and Stimuli of the Main Currents of Analytical Philosophy
		10.3 Analytical Philosophy and Language Communication
		10.4 A Few Personal Remarks
Part III: Reviews
	Chapter 11: Christian Damböck, Deutscher Empirismus: Studien zur Philosophie im deutschsprachigen Raum 1830–1930. (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts Wiener Kreis, Bd. 24.) Dordrecht: Springer 2017. xiii +237 pages
	Chapter 12: Stepan Ivanyk, Filozofowie ukraińscy w Szkole Lwowsko-Warszawskiej. Warszawa: Semper 2014. 223 pages
	Chapter 13: Monika Gruber, Alfred Tarski and the “Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages”: A Running Commentary with Consideration of the Polish Original and the German Translation. (Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, Vol. 39.) Cham: Sprin
Obituary: In Memory of Robert S. Cohen (1923–2017)
Index