: John Symons, Olga Pombo, Juan Manuel Torres
: John Symons, Olga Pombo, Juan Manuel Torres
: Otto Neurath and the Unity of Science
: Springer-Verlag
: 9789400701434
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: Allgemeines, Lexika
: English
: 264
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This volume critically reexamines Otto Neurath's conception of the unity of science. Some of the leading scholars of Neurath's work, along with many prominent philosophers of science critically examine his place in the history of philosophy of science and evaluate the relevance of his work for contemporary debates concerning the unity of science.
Contents6
Contributors8
Neurath and the Unity of Science: An Introduction10
On Neurath21
Unity of Science and Logical Empiricism: A Reply22
The Neurath Horkeimer-Controversy Reconsidered: Otto Neurath s Erwiderung to Max Horkheimer s Attack Against the Vienna Circle38
Otto Neurath s Epistemology and Its Paradoxes48
Neurath and the Encyclopaedic Project of Unity of Science65
Principles and Practices of Neurath s Picture Language77
Conceptions of Reality Schlick, Carnap, Neurath89
Keeping Track of Neurath s Bill: Abstract Concepts, Stock Models and the Unity of Classical Physics100
G. Itelson A Socratic Philosopher114
On the Unity of Science132
UnityWithout Myths133
Two Unification Strategies: Analysis or Reduction, and Synthesis or Integration149
A ComprehensibleWorld162
The Role of Biology in the Unity of Science Program184
Naturalism and the Unity of Science194
Searching for the Unity of Science: From Classical Logic to Abductive Logical Systems203
The Flat Analysis of Properties and the Unity of Science215
Scientific Reasonableness and the Pragmatic Approach to the Unity of Science223
Does Scientific Progress Necessarily Lead to a Unified Science?240
Name Index254
Subject Index259