Edgar Zilsel: Philosopher, Historian, Sociologist

Edgar Zilsel: Philosopher, Historian, Sociologist

Romizi, Donata; Nemeth, Elisabeth; Wulz, Monika

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

08/2022

421

Dura

Inglês

9783030936860

15 a 20 dias

811

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Part I: Edgar Zilsel: Philosopher, Historian, Sociologist.- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. From the Problem of Genius to the Integration of Philosophy, History, and Sociology of Science: Edgar Zilsel's Life and Work Viewed in the Context of Recent Historiography and Research.- Chapter 3. The Circumstances of Edgar Zilsel's Failed Habilitation. A Case Study on the Instigations of Anti-Semitic and Conservative Academic Networks in the 1920s at the University of Vienna.- Chapter 4. On Thermodynamics and Society: Zilsel's Epistemology and Politics Across Disciplinary Boundaries.- Chapter 5. Edgar Zilsel: Excellent Qualifications of an Awkward Man.- Chapter 6. The Law of Large Numbers. Edgar Zilsel's Attempt at the Foundation of Physical and Socio-historical Laws.- Chapter 7. Facts of Nature or Products of Reason? Edgar Zilsel Caught Between Ontological and Epistemic Conceptions of Natural Laws.- Chapter 8. Applications and Applicability. Zilsel's Criticism of Carnap's Early View on Protocol Statements.- Chapter 9. Laws, Causality, and Retribution - Hans Kelsen and Edgar Zilsel. A Marginal Note.- Chapter 10. How to Explain the Modern Personality Cult. Some Reflections on Edgar Zilsel's Studies on the Modern Genius-Veneration.- Chapter 11. Insufficient Recognition: Comparing Julian Hirsch's and Edgar Zilsel's Analyses of the Glorification of Personalities.- Chapter 12. The Religion of Genius Taken Seriously. Edgar Zilsel's Die Geniereligion (1918) Reviewed as a Critical Philosophical Treatise.- Chapter 13. The Epistemological Foundations of the Zilsel Thesis.- Chapter 14. Social and Epistemic Interactions Between Artisans and Scholars in Iberia. A Zilselian Reading of Early Modern Maritime Expansion.- Chapter 15. Engineering and Mathematical Logic. Another 'Zilsel-Case' From the History of Computing.- Chapter 16. Zilsel's Genius, or the Epistemic Fecundity of Neutrality.- Chapter 17. Zilsel, Zilsel: Reconnecting With an Intellectual Legacy That Deserves to be Revived.- Part II: General Part.- Chapter 18. Pragmatism and the A Priori: Lewis, Carnap and Ramsey.- Chapter 19. The First Vienna Circle: What Kind of Formation Was it-and Why Does it Matter?.- Chapter 20. Obituary: Jacques Bouveresse (1940-2021). How to Remain Rationalist in a Postmodern World?.- Part III: Reviews.- Chapter 21. David Edmonds, The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle, Princeton: Princeton University Press 2020; Karl Sigmund, Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science, New York: Basic Books 2017; Karl Sigmund, Sie nannten sich der Wiener Kreis: Exaktes Denken am Rand des Untergangs, Vienna: Springer 2018.- Chapter 22. Eva-Maria Engelen (Ed.), Kurt Goedel: Philosophische Notizbuecher/Philosophical Notebooks. Volume 1 and Volume 2, Berlin: De Gruyter 2019/2020.- Chapter 23. Dejan Makovec/Stewart Shapiro (Eds.), Friedrich Waismann: The Open Texture of Analytic Philosophy, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 2019.- Chapter 24. Cheryl Misak, Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Power, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2020.
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Edgar Zilsel;Zilsel thesis;Modern science;Scientific laws;Vienna Circle;Logical Empiricism;Emigrated scientists;Intellectual migration;Sociology of Science