Otto Neurath and the Unity of Science

Otto Neurath and the Unity of Science

von: John Symons, Olga Pombo, Juan Manuel Torres

Springer-Verlag, 2010

ISBN: 9789400701434 , 264 Seiten

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Otto Neurath and the Unity of Science


 

Contents

6

Contributors

8

Neurath and the Unity of Science: An Introduction

10

On Neurath

21

Unity of Science and Logical Empiricism: A Reply

22

The Neurath–Horkeimer-Controversy Reconsidered: Otto Neurath’s Erwiderung to Max Horkheimer’s Attack Against the Vienna Circle

38

Otto Neurath’s Epistemology and Its Paradoxes

48

Neurath and the Encyclopaedic Project of Unity of Science

65

Principles and Practices of Neurath’s Picture Language

77

Conceptions of Reality – Schlick, Carnap, Neurath

89

Keeping Track of Neurath’s Bill: Abstract Concepts, Stock Models and the Unity of Classical Physics

100

G. Itelson – A Socratic Philosopher

114

On the Unity of Science

132

UnityWithout Myths

133

Two Unification Strategies: Analysis or Reduction, and Synthesis or Integration

149

A ComprehensibleWorld

162

The Role of Biology in the Unity of Science Program

184

Naturalism and the Unity of Science

194

Searching for the Unity of Science: From Classical Logic to Abductive Logical Systems

203

The Flat Analysis of Properties and the Unity of Science

215

Scientific Reasonableness and the Pragmatic Approach to the Unity of Science

223

Does Scientific Progress Necessarily Lead to a Unified Science?

240

Name Index

254

Subject Index

259