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1 online resource (xiv, 418 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-405) and index. |
| Summary |
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 US in the 1930s and follows their de-politicization by a convergence of intellectual, cultural and political forces in the 1950s. Students of logical empiricism and the Vienna Circle treat these as strictly intellectual non-political projects. In fact, the refugee philosophers of science were highly active politically and debated questions about values inside and outside science, as a result of which their philosophy of science was scrutinized politically both from within and without the profession, by such institutions as J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. It will prove absorbing reading to philosophers and historians of science, intellectual historians, and scholars of Cold War studies. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Cold War (1945-1989) |
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Science -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century.
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Science -- Philosophy. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Cold War -- Influence.
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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United States. |
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Intellectual life. |
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Logical positivism.
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Logical positivism. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Reisch, George A., 1962- How the Cold War transformed philosophy of science. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005 0521837979 0521546893 (DLC) 2004052545 (OCoLC)55886401 |
| ISBN |
0511115571 (electronic book) |
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9780511115578 (electronic book) |
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9780511610318 (ebook) |
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0511610319 (ebook) |
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9780521837972 (hardback) |
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0521837979 (hardback) |
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1280415770 |
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9781280415777 |
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0521837979 (Cloth) |
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9780521546898 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0521546893 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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