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 …

Already the title of this paper shoulders too heavy a burden of praof. By contrasting science
and technoscience it alludes to an epochal break or fundamental shift in the culture of …

This paper examines the often overlooked parallels between the critical theory of the
German Frankfurt School and Science and Technology Studies in Britain, as an attempt to …

Zusammenfassung The Vienna Circle as part of the intellectual movement of Central
European philosophy of science is certainly one of the most important currents for the …

The Finnish philosopher Georg Henrik von Wright's (1916-2003) book Vetenskapen och
förnuftet–ett försök till orientering (Science and reason–an attempt to orientation), first …

There is nowadays, through the" social turn" in philosophy of science and philosophy of
technology, a new panorama in the philosophical approach to science and technology. For …

The aim of this paper is to show that global scientific promises aka “scientific worldviews”
have an interesting history that should be taken into account also for contemporary debates …

Recently, scholars of logical empiricism and the Vienna Circle have been bringing us a
different picture of logical empiricism than the one many philosophers educated in the …

In this paper, I show that there are important but hitherto unnoticed similarities between key
figures of the Vienna Circle and early defenders of sociology of knowledge. The similarities …

Abstract Members of the Vienna Circle played a pivotal role in defining the work that came to
be known as the philosophy of science, yet the Vienna Circle itself is now known to have …