Scientific Philosophy: Origins and Development is the first Yearbook of the Vienna Circle Institute, which was founded in October 1991. The book contains original contributions to an international symposium which was the first public event to be organised by the Institute: Vienna--Berlin--Prague: The Rise of Scientific Philosophy: The Centenaries of Rudolf Carnap, Hans Reichenbach and Edgar Zilsel.' The first section of the book - Scientific Philosophy - Origins and Developments' reveals the extent of scientific communication in the inter-War years between these great metropolitan centres, as well as presenting systematic investigations into the relevance of the heritage of the Vienna Circle to contemporary research and philosophy. This section offers a new paradigm for scientific philosophy, one which contrasts with the historiographical received view of logical empiricism. Support for this re-evaluation is offered in the second section, which contains, for the first time in English translation, Gustav Bergmann's recollections of the Vienna Circle, and an historical study of political economist Wilhelm Neurath, Otto Neurath's father.
The third section gives a report on current computer-based research which documents the relevance of Otto Neurath's Vienna method of pictorial statistics', or Isotypes'. A review section describes new publications on Neurath and the Vienna Circle, as well anthologies relevant to Viennese philosophy and its history, setting them in their wider cultural and political perspective. Finally, a description is given of the Vienna Circle Institute and its activities since its foundation, as well as of its plans for the future.

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Scientific Philosophy: Origins and Development is the first Yearbook of the Vienna Circle Institute, which was founded in October 1991. The book contains original contributions to an international symposium which was the first public event to be organised by the Institute: Vienna--Berlin--Prague: The Rise of Scientific Philosophy: The Centenaries of Rudolf Carnap, Hans Reichenbach and Edgar Zilsel.' The first section of the book - Scientific Philosophy - Origins and Developments' reveals the extent of scientific communication in the inter-War years between these great metropolitan centres, as well as presenting systematic investigations into the relevance of the heritage of the Vienna Circle to contemporary research and philosophy. This section offers a new paradigm for scientific philosophy, one which contrasts with the historiographical received view of logical empiricism. Support for this re-evaluation is offered in the second section, which contains, for the first time in English translation, Gustav Bergmann's recollections of the Vienna Circle, and an historical study of political economist Wilhelm Neurath, Otto Neurath's father. The third section gives a report on current computer-based research which documents the relevance of Otto Neurath's Vienna method of pictorial statistics', or Isotypes'. A review section describes new publications on Neurath and the Vienna Circle, as well anthologies relevant to Viennese philosophy and its history, setting them in their wider cultural and political perspective. Finally, a description is given of the Vienna Circle Institute and its activities since its foundation, as well as of its plans for the future.

Inhalt
Articles: Scientific Philosophy Origins and Developments.- Empiricism in the Vienna Circle and in the Berlin Society for Scientific Philosophy. Recollections and Reflections.- Logical Empiricism and the Uniqueness of the Schlick Seminar: A Personal Experience with Consequences.- Ludwig's Apple Tree: On the Philosophical Relations between Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle.- From the Vienna Circle to Harvard Square: The Americanization of a European World Conception.- The Cultural Meaning of Aufbau.- The Vienna Circle in France (19351937).- Marks and Probabilities: Two Ways to Find Causal Structure.- From Logical Empiricism to Radical Probabilism.- Why the Distinction between Analytic and Synthetic Statements?.- Carnap and Reichenbach on Probability with Neurath the Winner.- The Synthesis of Logicism and Formalism in Carnap's Logical Syntax of Language.- A New Critique of Freud's Theory of Dreams.- Documentation.- Memories of the Vienna Circle. Letter to Otto Neurath (1938).- Background Study.- Wilhelm Neurath's Opposition to Materialist Darwinism.- Research Report.- Software Support for Isotype Motivation and System Design.- Reviews.- Jour Fixe der Vernunft. Der Wiener Kreis und die Folgen. Hg. von Paul Kruntorad. Wien 1991. Geier, Manfred, Der Wiener Kreis. Reinbek 1992. Uebel, Th.E. (Ed.), Rediscovering the Forgotten Vienna Circle. Austrian Studies on Otto Neurath and the Vienna Circle. Dordrecht 1991.- Uebel, Th.E. Overcoming Logical Positivism from Within. The Emergence of Neurath's Naturalism in the Vienna Circle's Protocol Sentence Debate. Amsterdam 1992.- Coffa, A.J. The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap: To the Vienna Station. Ed. by Linda Wessels. Cambridge 1991.- Dear Carnap Dear Van. The Quine-Carnap Correspondence andRelated Work. W. V. Quine and Rudolf Carnap. Ed. by Richard Creath. Berkeley 1990.- Neurath, O, Gesammelte bildpädagogische Schriften. Hg. von Rudolf Haller und Robin Kinross. Wien 1991. Domsich, Johannes, Visualisierung Ein kulturel Defizit? Der Konflikt von Sprache, Schrift und Bild. Wien 1991.- Müller, K.H. Symbole, Statistik, Computer, Design. Otto Neuraths Bildstatistik im Computerzeitalter. Wien 1991.- Zilsel, E. Wissenschaft und Weltanschauung. Aufsätze 19291933. Hg. von Gerald Mozeti?. Wien 1992.- Fischer, K.R. Philosophie aus Wien. Wien 1991. Philosophie, Psychoanalyse, Emigration. Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Kurt Rudolf Fischer. Hg. von Paul Feyerabend, Peter Muhr und Cornelia Wegeler. Wien 1992.- Der geistige Anschluß. Philosophie und Politik an der Universität Wien 19301950. Hg. von Kurt R. Fischer, Franz M. Wimmer Wien 1993.- Grünbaum, A. Validation in the Clinical Theory of Psychoanalysis. Madison 1993.- Activities of the Institute 'Wiener Kreis'.- The Institute 'Wiener Kreis'. Information on Founding and Background.- Vienna-Berlin-Prague. The Rise of Scientific Philosophy. International Symposion on 14 October 1991.- Heinrich Gomperz, Karl Popper and Austrian Philosophy. International Workshop on 89 October 1992.- Order and Chaos in Nature and Society. Chaos and Music. International Meeting on 1821 November 1992.- Survey: Activities and Preview.