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Research and Use of Nuclear Energy—Its Ambivalence(s) in Historical Context
The discovery of a scientific fact is initially not ambivalent; only in its possibilities of use does its ambivalence become apparent. But the...
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Modernism for the Masses: Adprint, Isotype und die Nachfolger
In diesem Abschnitt wird die Kooperation zwischen dem Isotype-Institut und der Buchproduktionsfirma Adprint sowie den mit ihnen verbundenen Akteuren...
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Holo-cryptic Metaphysics in an Entropic Universe
This chapter offers a brief history of quantum mechanical theory (QMT) with special reference to the double-slit experiment. I take the QMO’s motion...
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The Tragedy of Tübingen
What happened at the Wittgenstein Archive at the University of Tübingen? This question has stimulated speculation amongst Wittgenstein scholars for...
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General Works
The chapter presents a translation, revision, and update of the chapter on “Allgemeines” (“General Works) from Moritz Steinschneider’s 1893 Die...
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Popper’s Life in England (1960–1970)
In the decade from 1960 to his retirement from the LSE (1969) Popper remained as productive as ever, both elaborating on his earlier work and...
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Part One. Philosophy. Chapter Four. Christians
The chapter presents a translation, revision, and update of the chapter on Christian philosophical writings in Hebrew from Moritz Steinschneider’s...
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The Spectre of Conservatism
In his keynote address to the 2nd International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg am Wechsel in 1977, von Wright announced the publication of...
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Introduction
The Viennese-born polymath Otto Neurath died on 22 December 1945 in Oxford, a few months after the end of World War Two. A social engineer and...
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1820s–1918: An Expansion of Women’s Intellectual Pursuits
Women in the 19th century Czech fields of philosophy and science were influenced by two main lines of thought. The first was the social-political and...
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Thinking About the “Common Reader:” Otto Neurath, L. Susan Stebbing and the (Modern) Picture-Text Style
When Otto Neurath went into exile in 1934, first to Holland and then to England, he succeeded in establishing important new connections within the...
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Curricula Vitae (1946–1965)
〈2 April 1946〉
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The Czech Reception of Portmann
The University of Prague and its graduates, unlike universities in Anglophone countries, for example, had a certain “preadaptation” to the reception...
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Jordi Cat, Adam Tamas Tuboly (Ed.) Neurath Reconsidered: New Sources and Perspectives. Cham: Springer Nature, 2019
Due to his manifold achievements, Otto Neurath has become a figure of interest in many fields – architecture, biography, economics, graphic design,...
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Czech Women in Philosophy and Science Since 1918
After the 1918 foundation of Czechoslovakia, more opportunities to study at universities opened up for women. Women were gradually admitted to all...
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Die „Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung“: Otto Neurath und der Wiener Kreis
Die Entstehung der vom Wiener Kreis getragenen philosophischen Bewegung des Logischen Empirismus, seine Ziele und die Positionen der Mitglieder sind...
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A Memoir
In this Memoir I describe the trajectory of my philosophical career, highlighting the themes which I have pursued. I endeavour to set it all in the...
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Visualizing Relations in Society and Economics: Otto Neurath’s Isotype-Method Against the Background of his Economic Thought
The article shows how two domains of Neurath’s broad and multifaceted work are related to each other: the concepts and methods he wanted to implement...
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Biology, Evolution and Life
Popper’s engagement with biology harked back to Logik (1935) and his participation in a meeting of the progressive Theoretical Biology...