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How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science - To the Icy Slopes of Logic (Hardcover)
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How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science - To the Icy Slopes of Logic (Hardcover)
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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.
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