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That was the Philosophy of Biology that was: Mainx, Woodger, Nagel, and Logical Empiricism, 1929–1961
This article is a systematic critical survey of work done in the philosophy of biology within the logical empiricist tradition, beginning in the...
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Facts of Nature or Products of Reason? Edgar Zilsel Caught Between Ontological and Epistemic Conceptions of Natural Laws
In this paper, I reconstruct the development and the complex character of Zilsel’s conception of scientific laws. This concept functions as a fil...
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A Viennese Library in Exile: Otto Neurath and the Heritage of Central European Culture in the Anglo-Saxon World
Otto Neurath experienced an adventurous as well as dangerous life. Already in his childhood, he was fascinated by his father’s huge library. He was...
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Tolerance, Disagreement, and the Practical Dimension of Philosophy: Warren Hagstrom’s Interview with Carnap
This paper includes an unpublished interview with Rudolf Carnap, conducted originally in 1961 by the sociologist Warren Hagstrom. It concerns...
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Doing Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology with Jean Gayon
Throughout my university career, and since I began my Ph.D., Jean Gayon was there. Unlike many contributors to this volume, to the early or...
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Edgar Zilsel: The Excellent Qualifications of an Awkward Man
Edgar Zilsel lived from April 1939 until March 1944 in the United States. During these five years he wrote and published articles which secured him a...
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On Thermodynamics and Society: Edgar Zilsel’s Epistemology and Politics Across Disciplinary Boundaries
This paper examines Edgar Zilsel’s reflections on the methods of historical and sociological research. It shows how Zilsel drew on the natural...
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Images of Science: A Reality Check
It will be argued that the dominant form of current academic science is based on ideas and concepts about science and research that date back to...
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Ruth Anna and Hilary Putnam
Ruth Anna Putnam was Philosopher of Philosophy at Wellesley College. Hilary Putnam was the Cogan University Professor at Harvard University. The...
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The Imperfect Reality of Persons
In this chapter, my interest is primarily in the thought of the great Ābhidhārmika Buddhist intellectual Vasubandhu (c. 360 CE), author of the...
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David Riazanov and the Leninist stage of Soviet Marxism
Focusing on David B. Riazanov career and his pioneering efforts in producing a complete edition of the works of Marx and Engels, the article explains...
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Douglas Quine
Douglas Quine is the son of Willard van Orman Quine. The interview took place in the living room of his home in Bethel, CT on January 16, 2006.
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Isotype im Exil: Visuelle Erziehung und Humanisierung des Wissens
Otto Neuraths zusammen mit seinem Team in Österreich begonnene bildpädagogische Arbeit und die „Wiener Methode der Bildstatistik“ bildeten die...
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Hunting Trophies
The third chapter is about the namesake of trophy hunters: The trophy. We have roughly four goals in this chapter: We start this chapter by...
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The “Continuous Line from the Formulations of the Magicians to the Formulations of the Sociologists”. Otto Neurath on the Anthropology of Magic and Religion
The present text deals with Neurath’s quest for a non-metaphysical sociology of magic and religion and takes into account a broader spectrum of...
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Analytic Philosophy in the Philippines
In this paper, I provide a brief overview of the development of analytic philosophy in the Philippines. I first highlight the circumstances that led...
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Science for, in and with Society: Pragmatism by Default
To rethink the relation between science and society and its current problems authoritative scholars in the US and Europe, but also around the globe,...
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Autobiographical Remarks (1976)
Hugo Dingler was one of my first loves in the philosophy of science. When I was 16 I picked up his Grundlagen der Geometrie (1st ed.) in a second...
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Life After Retirement
Upon his retirement in 1969, Popper became Emeritus Professor of Logic and Scientific Method. A highlight of his retirement period, besides many...
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The Discovery of the Falsifiability Principle
Popper is most famous for his principle of falsifiabilityFalsifiability. It is striking that, throughout his career, he used three terms...