Article ID: CBB000931165

The Left Vienna Circle, Part 1. Carnap, Neurath, and the Left Vienna Circle Thesis (2009)

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Recent scholarship resuscitates the history and philosophy of a `left wing' in the Vienna Circle, offering a counterhistory to the conventional image of analytic philosophy as politically conformist. This paper disputes the historical claim that early logical empiricists developed a political philosophy of science. Though some individuals in the Vienna Circle, including Rudolf Carnap and Otto Neurath, believed strongly in the importance of science to social progress, they did not construct a political philosophy of science. Both Carnap and Neurath were committed to forms of political neutralism that run strongly against a political reading of their logical empiricism. In addition, Carnap and Neurath sharply differ on precisely the subject of the place of politics in logical empiricism, throwing into question the construct of the `Left Vienna Circle' as a coherent, sociohistorical, programmatic unit within the Vienna Circle.

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Article Richardson, Sarah S. (2009) The Left Vienna Circle, Part 2. The Left Vienna Circle, Disciplinary History, and Feminist Philosophy of Science. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (p. 167). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Uebel, Thomas E.
D’Oro, Giuseppina
Tuboly, Adam Tamas
Lethen, Tim
Yap, Audrey
Vossoughian, Nader
Concepts
Philosophy
Positivism
History of philosophy of science
Philosophy of science
Philosophy and politics
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
Places
Germany
Vienna (Austria)
United States
Austria
Berlin (Germany)
Central Europe
Institutions
Vienna Circle
Berlin Group (Philosophy)
Berliner Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftliche Philosophie
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