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The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism is for scholars, researchers and students in history and philosophy of science focusing on Logical Empiricism and analytic philosophy (of science). This volume features recent work from international research and historiography on the Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism and their influence.
It is unique in that it:

-provides historical and systematic research;
-deals with the influence and impact of the Vienna Circle/Logical Empiricism on today's philosophy of science;
-explores the intellectual context of this scientificphilosophy;
-unites contributions by renowned scholars and a younger generation of philosophers;
-focuses on main figures and peripheral adherents;
-features crucial issues of Logical Empiricism;
-documents the activities of the Vienna Circle Institute;
-includes reviews on related topics.

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Pluralism of tenable world views

Naess Arne

3-7

On the formation of logical empiricism

Parrini Paolo

9-20

Bolzano's account of justification

Von Duhn Anita

21-33

Kantian metaphysics and hertzian mechanics

Hyder David

35-46

Moritz Schlick's idea of non-territorial states

Schleichert Hubert

49-61

An unknown side of Moritz Schlick's intellectual biography

Ferrari Massimo

63-77

Between meaning and demarcation

Juergen Wendel Hans

79-94

"Let's talk about flourishing!"

Borchers Dagmar

95-106

Coordination and convention in Hans Reichenbach's philosophy of space

Klein Carsten

109-120

Reichenbach's definition of simultaneity in historical and philosophical perspective

Rynasiewicz Robert

121-129

Towards a physicalistic attitude

Manninen Juha

133-150

Logical empiricism and phenomenology

Huemer Wolfgang

151-161

Béla von Juhos and the concept of "Konstatierungen"

Koterski Artur

163-169

Wittgenstein's constructivization of Euler's proof of the infinity of primes

Mancosu Paolo; Marion Mathieu

171-188

Quine's historical argument for epistemology naturalized

De Pierris Graciela

189-201

Two uses of unification

Sober Elliott

205-216

Unity and plurality in the concept of causation

Hitchcock Christopher

217-224

Edgar Zilsel's research programme

Raven Diederich; Schickore Jutta

225-234

Criticizing a difference of contexts

Schiemann Gregor

237-251

Contextualizing an epistemological issue

Hon Giora

253-263

The contexts of scientific justification. some reflections on the relation between epistemological contextualism and philosophy of science

Schickore Jutta

265-277

Modal skepticism

Cohnitz Daniel

281-296

Structure and heuristic

Engler Fynn Ole

297-309

The neutrality of meta-ethics revisited

Czaniera Uwe

313-319

No woman, no try?

Borchers Dagmar

323-338

Susan Stebbing on Cambridge and Vienna analysis

Beaney Michael

339-350

Susan Stebbing's criticism of Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Milkov Nikolay

351-363

Rose Rand

Hamacher-Hermes Adelheid

365-378

Logical positivism in Russia

Nazarova Olessia

381-388