By George A. Reisch
This in-depth examine of the advance of philosophy of technology experiences within the usa in the course of the chilly conflict records the political energy of logical empiricism and Otto Neurath's solidarity of technological know-how move whilst the move emigrated to the U.S. within the Thirties. It follows its de-politicization by way of a convergence of highbrow, cultural and political forces within the Nineteen Fifties. the amount might be of curiosity to philosophers and historians of technological know-how, in addition to students of chilly conflict stories.
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Niels Bohr, the Nobel Prize–winning author of the Copenhagen Interpretation, easily attended since the congress was held at his spacious home (see Figure 1). Though fewer Americans were present (many had spent precious depression dollars a year before to attend in Paris), the cast of characters remained wide and international. The third congress, held again in Paris in 1937, was dedicated to the planning and conception of the Encyclopedia and core issues in logical empiricism. Large sessions were held on Unity of Science and Logic and Mathematics, while smaller sessions covered topics in physics, biology, and psychology.
Government experts in military intelligence. Combining the brains of Sidney Hook, Daniel Burnham, and other anti-Stalinist intellectuals with the financial brawn of the CIA and major philanthropic organizations, organizers of this congress generously sponsored anticommunist liberalism throughout Europe and Asia in the form of publications, conferences, and exhibitions. To the Icy Slopes of Logic The following chapters together examine how, in light of these various pressures and circumstances, logical empiricism took the apolitical, technical, and professional form it had taken by the end of the 1950s.
He praised what had been the project’s reassuring, “business as usual” spirit, and he reminded them that this “real international enterprise” was sustained “partly by refugees” who would be discouraged and demoralized: “the war is going on very well and victory comes nearer every day. ” Neurath did not choose these most effective words merely for the occasion. He often wrote privately to Morris about the movement in similar terms: “During wartime science and logical analysis cannot rest. . ”17 Obstacles appeared in front of the movement roughly every two years.