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 …

The faculty of economics at today's Humboldt University in Berlin, as no other institution of
economics, has witnessed three radical ruptures in its history: in 1933, National Socialism …

In a recent article, Ronald Giere has argued that the currently fashionable union of history
and philosophy of science is no more than a marriage of convenience, justified like so many …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This abridged and revised edition of the original book (Springer-Wien-New York: 2001)
offers the only comprehensive history and documentation of the Vienna Circle based on new …

The purpose of this paper is to uncover some of the limitations that critical contextual
empiricism, and in particular Longino's contextualism, faces when trying to provide a …

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 …

Logical positivism is widely associated with an illiberal technocratic view of politics. This
view is a caricature. Some members of the left Vienna circle were explicit in their criticism of …