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Philosophical Papers 1913-1946 - With a Bibliography of Neurath in English (Hardcover, 1983 ed.)
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Philosophical Papers 1913-1946 - With a Bibliography of Neurath in English (Hardcover, 1983 ed.)
Series: Vienna Circle Collection, 16
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The philosophical writings of Otto Neurath, and their central
themes, have been described many times, by Carnap in his
authobiographical essay, by Ayer and Morris and Kraft decades ago,
by Haller and Hegselmann and Nemeth and others in recent years. How
extraordinary Neurath's insights were, even when they perhaps were
more to be seen as conjectures, aperfus, philosophical hypotheses,
tools to be taken up and used in the practical workshop of life;
and how prescient he was. A few examples may be helpful: (1)
Neurath's 1912 lecture on the conceptual critique of the idea of a
pleasure maximum [ON 50] substantially anticipates the development
of aspects of analytical ethics in mid-century. (2) Neurath's 1915
paper on alternative hypotheses, and systems of hypotheses, within
the science of physical optics [ON 81] gives a lucid account of the
historically-developed clashing theories of light, their un
realized further possibilities, and the implied contingencies of
theory survival in science, all within his framework that antedates
not only the quite similar work of Kuhn so many years later but
also of the Vienna Circle too. (3) Neurath's subsequent paper of
1916 investigates the inadequacies of various attempts to classify
systems of hypotheses [ON 82, and this volume], and sets forth a
pioneering conception of the metatheoretical task of scientific
philosophy.
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