How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science: To the Icy Slopes of Logic
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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&apos;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&apos;s FBI. It will prove absorbing reading to philosophers and historians of science, intellectual historians, and scholars of Cold War studies.


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Language: English
File size: 13853 KB
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: March 21, 2005
ISBN-13: 978-0521837972
Edition: Illustrated
subtitle: Illustrated Edition, Kindle Edition
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