TABLE OF CONTENTS
A. THE VIENNA CIRCLE AND LOGICAL EMPIRICISM
FRIEDRICH STADLER: What is the Vienna Circle? Some Methodological and Historiographical Answers XI
I. ORIGINS AND HISTORY
ARNE NAESS: Pluralism of Tenable World Views 3
PAOLO PARRINI: On the Formation of Logical Empiricism 9
ANITA VON DUHN: Bolzano’s Account of Justification 21
DAVID JALAL HYDER: Kantian Metaphysics and Hertzian Mechanics 35
II. MORITZ SCHLICK
HUBERT SCHLEICHERT: Moritz Schlick’s Idea of Non-territorial States 49
MASSIMO FERRARI: An Unknown Side of Moritz Schlick’s Intellectual Biography: the Reviews for the “Vierteljahrschrift für wissenschaftliche Philosophie und Soziologie” (1911-1916) 63
HANS JÜRGEN WENDEL: Between Meaning and Demarcation 79
DAGMAR BORCHERS: “Let’s Talk about Flourishing!” – Moritz Schlick and the Non-cognitive Foundation of Virtue Ethics 95
III. HANS REICHENBACH
CARSTEN KLEIN: Coordination and Convention in Hans Reichenbach’s Philosophy of Space 109 VIII
ROBERT RYNASIEWICZ: Reichenbach’s of Simultaneity in Historical and Philosophical Perspective 121
IV. OTHER PROPONENTS AND PERIPHERY
JUHA MANNINEN: Towards a Physicalistic Attitude 133
WOLFGANG HUEMER: Logical Empiricism and Phenomenology: Felix Kaufmann 151
ARTUR KOTERSKI: Béla von Juhos and the Concept of “Konstatierungen” 163
PAOLO MANCOSU / MATHIEU MARION: Wittgenstein’s Constructivization of Euler’s Proof of the Infinity of Primes 171
GRACIELA DEPIERRIS: Quine’s Historical Argument for Epistemology Naturalized 189
V. UNITY AND PLURALITY
ELLIOTT SOBER: Two Uses of Unification 205
CHRISTOPHER HITCHCOCK: Unity and Plurality in the Concept of Causation 217
DIEDERICK RAVEN: Edgar Zilsel’s Research Programme: Unity of Science as an Empirical Problem 225
VI. CONTEXTS OF SCIENCE
GREGOR SCHIEMANN: Criticizing a Difference of Contexts – On Reichenbach’s Distinction between “Context of Discovery” and “Context of Justification” 237
GIORA HON: Contextualizing an Epistemological Issue: the Case of Error in Experiment 253
JUTTA SCHICKORE: The Contexts of Scientific Justification. Some Reflections on the Relation Between Epistemological Contextualism and Philosophy of Science 265 IX
VII. EPISTEMOLOGY
DANIEL COHNITZ: Modal Skepticism. Philosophical Thought Experiments and Modal Epistemology 281
F.O. ENGLER: Structure and Heuristic: in Praise of Structural Realism in the Case of Niels Bohr 297
VIII. ETHICS
UWE CZANIERA: The Neutrality of Meta-Ethics Revisited – How to Draw on Einstein and the Vienna Circle in Developing an Adequate Account of Morals 313
IX. WOMEN OF LOGICAL EMPIRICISM
DAGMAR BORCHERS: No Woman, no Try? – Else Frenkel-Brunswik and the Project of Integrating Psychoanalysis into the Unity of Science 323
MICHAEL BEANEY: Susan Stebbing on Cambridge and Vienna Analysis 339
NIKOLAY MILKOV: Susan Stebbing’s Criticism of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus 351
ADELHEID HAMACHER-HERMES: Rose Rand: a Woman in Logic 365
B. GENERAL PART
REPORT – DOCUMENTATION
OLESSIA NAZAROVA: Logical Positivism in Russia 381 X
REVIEWS
Ernst Mach’s Vienna 1895-1930 or Phenomenalism as Philosophy of Science. Edited by John Blackmore, Ryoichi Itagaki and Setsuko Tanaka. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht 2001. (Erik Banks) 389 Herbert Hochberg, The Positivist and the Ontologist. Bergmann, Carnap and Logical Realism, Rodopi: Amsterdam/Atlanta 2001. (Erwin Tegtmeier) 393 Liliana Albertazzi / Dale Jacquette / Roberto Poli (eds.), The School of Alexius Meinong (= Western philosophy series 57), Aldershot et al.: Ashgate, 2001. (Maria Reicher) 397 M. Ferrari / I.-O. Stamatescu (eds.), Symbol and Physical Knowledge. On the Conceptual Structure of Physics, Springer: Berlin 2002. (Thomas Mormann) 401 Uwe Czaniera, Gibt es moralisches Wissen? Die Kognitivismusdebatte in der analytischen Moralphilosophie, Mentis: Paderborn 2001. (Gabriele Mras) 406
ACTIVITIES OF THE INSTITUTE VIENNA CIRCLE
Activities 2002 411 Preview 2003 414
OBITUARY
Eugene T. Gadol (1920-2000) (Friedrich St adler) 417
Index of Names 419