Contents Contributors page ix Introduction 1 ALAN RICHARDSON AND THOMAS UEBEL PART ONE: THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF LOGICAL EMPIRICISM 1 The Vienna Circle: Context, Profile, and Development 13 FRIEDRICH STADLER 2 The Society for Empirical/Scientific Philosophy 41 DIETER HOFFMANN 3 From ''the Life of the Present'' to the ''Icy Slopes of Logic'': Logical Empiricism, the Unity of Science Movement, and the Cold War 58 GEORGE A. REISCH PART TWO: LOGICAL EMPIRICISM: ISSUES IN GENERAL PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 4 Coordination, Constitution, and Convention: The Evolution of the A Priori in Logical Empiricism 91 MICHAEL FRIEDMAN 5 Confirmation, Probability, and Logical Empiricism 117 MARIA CARLA GALAVOTTI 6 The Structure of Scientific Theories in Logical Empiricism 136 THOMAS MORMANN vii © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-79628-6 The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism Edited by Alan Richardson and Thomas Uebel Table of Contents More information PART THREE: LOGICAL EMPIRICISM AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SPECIAL SCIENCES 7 The Turning Point and the Revolution: Philosophy of Mathematics in Logical Empiricism from Tractatus to Logical Syntax 165 STEVE AWODEY AND A. W. CARUS 8 Logical Empiricism and the Philosophy of Physics 193 THOMAS RYCKMAN 9 Logical Empiricism and the Philosophy of Psychology 228 GARY L. HARDCASTLE 10 Philosophy of Social Science in Early Logical Empiricism: The Case of Radical Physicalism 250 THOMAS UEBEL 11 Logical Empiricism and the History and Sociology of Science 278 ELISABETH NEMETH PART FOUR: LOGICAL EMPIRICISM AND ITS CRITICS 12 Wittgenstein, the Vienna Circle, and Physicalism: A Reassessment 305 DAVID STERN 13 Vienna, the City of Quine's Dreams 332 RICHARD CREATH 14 ''That Sort of Everyday Image of Logical Positivism'': Thomas Kuhn and the Decline of Logical Empiricist Philosophy of Science 346 ALAN RICHARDSON Bibliography 371 Index 419 Contentsviii © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-79628-6 The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism Edited by Alan Richardson and Thomas Uebel Table of Contents More information