The Legacy of the Vienna Circle

This book gives a critical evaluation of the Vienna Circle, its historical influences, and the philosophical legacy of logical empiricism. The first part of the volume contains nine original research articles by leading experts in the field on the philosophical work of Rudolf Carnap, Philipp Frank, Otto Neurath, Janina Hosiassion-Lindenbaum, Susan Stebbing, and Gustav Hempel (among others) and their respective influence on subsequent developments in philosophy and the science studies. Topics addressed in the volume include: scientific humanism and non-cognitivism, scientific pluralism, the post-war reception of Logical Empiricism, relativism and the sociology of science, inductive reasoning and probability theory, as well as aspects of logical theory reconstruction. This book is of relevance to scholars and advanced students interested in the history of logical empiricism and the history of philosophy of science more generally.

Editorial (Georg Schiemer).- Part 1. The Vienna Circle – History and Legacy.- 1. Inductive Reasoning and the Logic of Rational Degrees of Belief in Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum’s Early Work (Marta Sznajder).- 2. Quantum Mechanics as a Carnapian Language (Iulian Danut Toader).- 3. On Hempel on Hempel (Sebastian Lutz).- 4. Noncognitive Deliberation in Context (Christian Damböck).- 5. Scientific Humanism in Practice – L. Susan Stebbing and Otto Neurath (Silke Körber).- 6. A forgotten chapter in the history of sociology of science - Philipp Frank’s ‘good nose’ (George Reisch and Adam Tamas Tuboly).- 7. The American Reception of Logical Empiricism: A Mention-Based Bibliometric Analysis (Sander Verhaegh, Eugenio Petrovich, and Gregor Bös).- 8. Relativism and Sociology of Knowledge in Logical Empiricism: The Cases of Frank and Neurath (Martin Kusch).- 9. Scientific Pluralism as a Branch of Millenial Popperianism? (Alexander Linsbichler, Sophie Juliane Veigl, and Benjamin Smart).- Part 2. General Part.- 10. Otto Neurath and Ludwig Wittgenstein: Money and Philosophy in Vienna (Jordi Cat).- 11. Susan Stebbing on the Scientific Attitude and Moral Philosophy Context and Comments (Silke Körber and Adam Tamas Tuboly).- 12. The Inadequacies of the Scientific Attitude (L. Susan Stebbing).- 13. Men and Moral Principles (L. Susan Stebbing).- Part 3. Reviews.- 14. Alexander Linsbichler, Viel mehr als nur Ökonomie: Köpfe und Ideen der Österreichischen Schule der Nationalökonomie, Böhlau/ BRILL 2022 (Reinhard Neck).- 15. Kurt Gödel, Philosophische Notizbücher/ Philosophical Notebooks. Volumes III-V. Edited by Eva-Maria Engelen, De Gruyter 2021/2023 (Karl Sigmund).- 16. John Preston (Ed.), Interpreting Mach: Critical Essays, Cambridge University Press 2022 (Philipp Leon Bauer).- Index.

Georg Schiemer is Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Head of Department of the Institute Vienna Circle at the University of Vienna. He is also an external fellow at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at LMU Munich. His research focuses on the history and philosophy of mathematics and early analytic philosophy. He is also interested in logic, the history and philosophy of logic and formal philosophy of science.