When reason goes on holiday
Subtitle: philosophers in politics
By: by Neven Sesardić
Edition: First American edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781594038792
Subjects: Philosophy; Political atrocities; Political science; Right and left (Political science); History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The wisdom that failed; title: Otto Neurath : a philosopher and the commissars; title: How philosophers of science promoted leftist pseudoscience; title: Rudolf Carnap : blaming the West for the Iron Curtain; title: Eistein and Gödel : great minds err alike; title: Ludwig Wittgenstein : to Russia with love; title: Imre Lakatos : eulogized in England, unforgiven in Hungary; title: Jerry Cohen : don't celebrate the collapse of Soviet communism!; title: Michael Dummett : a bumbling anti-racist; title: Hilary Putnam : a follower of chairman Mao; title: Donaldson Davidson : a dupe of the communist party; title: The American Philosophical Association : a vehicle for partisan politics; title: Left-wing bias : an infantile disorder of contemporary philosophy.