This book studies how the relationship between philosophy, morality, politics, and science was conceived in the Vienna Circle and how this group of philosophers tried to position science as an antidote to totalitarianism and irrationalism. This leads to investigation of the still understudied views of the Vienna Circle on moral philosophy, meta-ethics, and the relationship between philosophy of science and politics. Including papers from an international group of scholars, The Socio-ethical Dimension of Knowledge: The Mission of Logical Empiricism addresses these topics and makes them available to scholars in the field of history of philosophy of science.

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Adam Tamas Tuboly is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Research Center for the Humanities and research fellow at the Institute of Transdisciplinary Discoveries, Medical School, University of Pécs. He works on the history of logical empiricism and writes now a biographical volume on Otto Neurath and one on Philipp Frank.

Christian Damböck is a postdoc researcher at the Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna. He is recently working on an edition of the diaries of Rudolf Carnap.

Inhalt
1.Adam Tamas Tuboly: Introduction
2.Anne Siegetsleitner: Ethics and Morality in the Vienna Circle
3.Alan Richardson: The Social Virtue of Science. Motivating Structural Objectivity in Logical Empiricism
4.Andreas Vrahimis: Philosophy (and Wissenschaft) Without Politics? Schlick on Nietzsche, German Idealism, and Militarism
5.Gergely Ambrus: Schlick on the meaning of good
6.Adam Tamas Tuboly: Making logical positivism less logical: Schlick and von Mises
7.Fons Dewulf: Leo Apostel and Rudolf Carnap: The Development of Logical Empiricist Ethics in Post-War Europe
8.Günther Sandner: Edgar Zilsel and Otto Neurath on the Cult of Genius
9.Philippe Stamenkovic: Philipp Frank's Relativism: Presentation, Appreciation, and Critique
10.Hans-Joachim Dahms: Alternative facts, Fake News, pseudo-science: new challenges for a scientific world-view. An essay