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How the Cold War transformed philosophy of science : = to the icy slopes of logic /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	How the Cold War transformed philosophy of science :/ George A. Reisch.
Reminder of title:	to the icy slopes of logic /
Author:	Reisch, George A.,
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 418 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Science - Philosophy - 20th century. -
Subject:	United States - Defenses -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511610318
ISBN:	9780511610318 (ebook)

How the Cold War transformed philosophy of science : = to the icy slopes of logic /
Reisch, George A.,1962-

How the Cold War transformed philosophy of science :to the icy slopes of logic /George A. Reisch. - 1 online resource (xiv, 418 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

An introduction to logical empiricism and the unity of science movement in the cold war -- Otto Neurath, Charles Morris, Rudolf Carnap, and Philipp Frank: political philosophers of science -- Leftist philosophy of science in America and the reception of logical empiricism in New York City -- "Doomed in advance to defeat?" John Dewey on reductionism, values, and the international encyclopedia of unified science -- Red philosophy of science: Blumberg, Malisoff, Somerville, and early philosophy of science -- The view from the left:logical empiricism and communist philosophers -- The view from the far left:logical empiricism and communist philosophers -- Postwar disillusionment, anti-intellectualism, and the values debate -- Horace Kallen's attack on the unity of science -- Creeping totalitarianism, creeping scholasticism: Neurath, Frank, and the trouble with semantics -- Frank's Neurathian crusade: science, englightenment, and values -- "A very fertile field for investigation": anticollectivism and anticommunism in popular and academic culture -- Anticommunist investigations, loyalty oaths, and the wrath of sidney hook -- Competing programs for postwar philosophy of science -- Freedom celebrated: the professional decline of Philipp Frank and the unity of science movement -- The marginalization of Charles Morris -- Values, Axioms, and the icy slopes of logic -- Professionalism, power, and what might have been.

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'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's FBI. It will prove absorbing reading to philosophers and historians of science, intellectual historians, and scholars of Cold War studies.

ISBN: 9780511610318 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

798997
Science
--Philosophy--20th century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

528513
United States
--Defenses

LC Class. No.: Q174.8 / .R45 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 501

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