This article is intended as a contribution to the current debates about the relationship
between politics and the philosophy of science in the Vienna Circle. I reconsider this issue …

Abstract In different places Rudolf Carnap and Otto Neurath affirmed “a noteworthy
agreement” and an “inner link” between their philosophy of science and political movements …

Recent scholarship resuscitates the history and philosophy of a 'left wing'in the Vienna
Circle, offering a counterhistory to the conventional image of analytic philosophy as …

The scientific world-conception is properly understood as an enlightenmentphilosophy only
if the current reassessment of the historical Vienna Circle (as opposed to the caricature still …

This paper rejects as unfounded a recent criticism of research on the so-called left wing of
the Vienna Circle and the claim that it sported a political philosophy of science. The demand …

Philip Mirowski's analysis of the changing role of science under what he calls the 'globalized
privatization regime'(p. 314) sounds a clear warning to all theorists of scientific knowledge …

Recent work in science studies has often made explicit connections between its conceptions
of knowledge and of political practice. For an especially clear example, consider how …

The Vienna Circle was a group of early twentieth-century philosophers who sought to
reconceptualize empiricism by means of their interpretation of then recent advances in the …

Science and Technology Studies (STS) generally assume that the traditional philosophy of
science has nothing valuable to contribute to the question of what science might mean for …

Thomas E. Uebel has recently claimed that, contrary to popular opinion, none of the
philosophers of the Vienna Circle of Logical Positivists were proponents of epistemological …