The Vienna Circle in the Nordic Countries.: Networks and Transformations of Logical Empiricism (Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, 14)

✍ Scribed by Juha Manninen, Friedrich Stadler

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 318
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The rise of scientific (analytic) philosophy since the turn of the twentieth century is linked to the philosophical interaction between, on the one hand, Ernst Mach, the Vienna Circle around Moritz Schlick and Otto Neurath, the Berlin Group (Hans Reichenbach, Carl G. Hempel), and the Prague Group (Rudolf Carnap, Philipp Frank), and, on the other, philosophers and scientists in Denmark (Niels Bohr, Joergen Joergensen), Finland (Eino Kaila, Georg Henrik von Wright and their disciples), Norway (Arne N?ss and his students), and Sweden (?ke Petz?ll, the journal Theoria and a younger generation of philosophers in Uppsala). In addition, the pure theory of law of Hans Kelsen achieved wide dissemination in the Nordic countries (through, for example, Alf Ross). One of the key events in the relations between the Central European philosophers and those of the Nordic countries was the Second International Congress for the Unity of Science which was arranged in Copenhagen in 1936. Besides considering the interactions of these groups, the book also pays special attention to their interactions, in the context of the Cold War period following the Second World War, with the so-called Third Vienna Circle and with the Forum Alpbach/Austrian College around Viktor Kraft and Bela Juhos (along with Ludwig Wittgenstein and Paul Feyerabend), where the issues of (philosophical and scientific) realism and "psychologism"—the relationship between psychology and philosophy—were matters of controversy. By comparison with the more extensively investigated and better known transatlantic transfer and transformation of "positivism" and logical empiricism, the developments outlined above remain neglected and marginalized topics in historiography. The symposium aims to reveal the remarkable continuity of the philosophical enlightened "Nordic Connection". We intend to shed light on this forgotten communication and to reconstruct these hidden scholarly networks from an historical and logical point of view, thereby evaluating their significance for today’s research.

✦ Table of Contents

9048136822......Page 1
VIENNA CIRCLE INSTITUTE YEARBOOK [2008]
14......Page 3
The Vienna Circle in the
Nordic Countries......Page 4
TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 6
EDITORIAL......Page 8
DOGMAS AND PROBLEMS OF EMPIRICISM......Page 11
NIELS BOHR AND THE VIENNA CIRCLE......Page 32
BETWEEN THE VIENNA CIRCLE AND LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN –
THE PHILOSOPHICAL TEACHERS OF G. H. VON WRIGHT......Page 45
THEORIA AND LOGICAL EMPIRICISM......Page 66
POSITIVISM BEFORE LOGICAL POSITIVISM
IN NORDIC PHILOSOPHY......Page 87
THE EARLIEST EXTENSIVE RECEPTIONS
OF MACH IN THE NORTH......Page 100
KAILA’S CRITIQUE OF VITALISM......Page 119
KAILA AND REICHENBACH AS PROTAGONISTS
OF ‘NATURPHILOSOPHIE......Page 129
JØRGEN JØRGENSEN AND LOGICAL POSITIVISM......Page 147
THE DEBATE ON BEGRIFFSTHEORIE BETWEEN CASSIRER,
MARC-WOGAU – AND SCHLICK......Page 161
THE NATURE AND STATUS OF SCIENTIFIC METATHEORY.
THE DEBATE BETWEEN OTTO NEURATH AND ÅKE PETZÄLL......Page 175
YOUNG KETONEN AND HIS SUPREME LOGICAL DISCOVERY......Page 196
EMPIRICISM, PRAGMATISM, BEHAVIORISM: ARNE NÆSS AND
THE GROWTH OF AMERICAN-STYLED SOCIAL RESEARCH IN
NORWAY AFTER WORLD WAR II......Page 211
JAAKKO HINTIKKA IN THE LIBRARY OF LIVING PHILOSOPHERS:
A DIALOGUE......Page 222
ON UNITY AND DISUNITY IN THE SCIENCES:
VARIATIONS OF ANCIENT THEMATA......Page 235
ENLIGHTENMENT AND FORMAL ROMANTICISM –
CARNAP’S ACCOUNT OF PHILOSOPHY AS EXPLICATION......Page 253
AN IMPROBABLE CASE OF PHILOSOPHY: ARNE NAESS BETWEEN
EMPIRICISM, EXISTENTIALISM AND METAPHYSICS......Page 270
REVIEWS......Page 282