7 edition of How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science found in the catalog.
Published
March 21, 2005
by Cambridge University Press
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Written in English
| The Physical Object | |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | 432 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL7745841M |
| ISBN 10 | 0521546893 |
| ISBN 10 | 9780521546898 |
George Reisch is the author of the book How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science, published by Cambridge University Press in He has taught at Illinois Institute of Technology and Northwestern and was a National Science Foundation fellow from His research concerns the history of philosophy of science in the 20th century, with emphasis upon the effects of the Cold War. Science & Education, v18 n2 p Feb In responding to critics and reviewers of my book, "How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science," I attempt to identify some misleading conventional wisdom about the place of values in philosophy of science and then offer three distinct ways in which philosophers of science can engage their Cited by: 3.
The cold war university is the academic component of the military-industrial-academic complex, and its archetype, according to Rebecca Lowen, is Stanford University. Her book challenges the conventional wisdom that the post-World War II multiversity was created by military patrons on the one hand and academic scientists on the other and points instead to the crucial role played by . Publisher description for How the Cold War transformed philosophy of science: to the icy slopes of logic / George A. Reisch. This intriguing and ground-breaking book is the first in-depth study of the development of philosophy of science in the United States during the Cold War. It documents the political vitality of logical empiricism and.
Ulrich Herbert. Hardcover 16 September A Superpower Transformed. The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the s $ helped to cultivate in North America no longer holds the unity of science among it core issues and concerns’ (p. 8, also p. 3). 2. Theunity of science movement died out in the United States because of Cold War anti-communism and McCarthyism and [American philosophyofscience] has evolved into ’a very different form it takes today’ (p. 2).
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"How the Cold War Transfoormed Philosophy of Science is a rich and important contribution to the history of philosophy of science, the history of philosophy, and the American postwar history." - Jordi Cat "Reisch has written a complex, controversial, and richly documented book on the fall of logical empiricism in North America.
I highly 5/5(2). Well, George Reisch in his lucidly written, *How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science*, gives us at least a part of the answer.
In this book, Reisch explores the reception of logical empiricism in the United States, with a special concentration on the fate of the Unity of Science movement which was founded by Neurath and which was 5/5(1). George Reisch How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xiv + pp.
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It documents the political vitality of logical empiricism and Otto Neurath's Unity of Science Movement when these projects emigrated to the US in the s and follows their de-politicization by a convergence of intellectual, cultural and. How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science To the Icy Slopes of Logic This intriguing and ground-breaking book is the first in-depth study of the development of philosophy of science in the United States during the Cold War.
It documents the political vitality of logical em-piricism and Otto Neurath’s Unity of Science movement when these. - How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science - To the Icy Slopes of Logic - by George A.
Reisch Excerpt. An Introduction to Logical Empiricism and the Unity of Science Movement in the Cold War. For those interested in the history of philosophy of science, logical empiricism holds a special attraction.
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Read the book on paper - %(). GEORGE A. REISCH, How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science: To the Icy Slopes of Logic Article (PDF Available) in The British Journal for the History of Science 40(01) - March. John McCumber. The Philosophy Scare: The Politics of Reason in the Early Cold War.
Published: Novem John McCumber, The Philosophy Scare: The Politics of Reason in the Early Cold War, University of Chicago Press,pp., $ (hbk), ISBN Reviewed by George A. Reisch. Download Citation | How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science: To the Icy Slopes of Logic | This in-depth study of the development of philosophy of science studies in the United States.
How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science: To the Icy Slopes of Logic. Michael W. Tkacz - - Review of Metaphysics 60 (1) Putting Pragmatism to Work in the Cold War: Science, Technology, and Politics in the Writings of James B. Conant. Get this from a library. How the Cold War transformed philosophy of science: to the icy slopes of logic.
[George A Reisch] -- This intriguing and ground-breaking book is the first in-depth study of the development of philosophy of science in the United States during the. In responding to critics and reviewers of my book, How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science, I attempt to identify some misleading conventional wisdom about the place of values in philosophy of science and then offer three distinct ways in which philosophers of science can engage their work with ongoing social and political by: 3.
6 How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science A New Explanation for the Demise of Logical Empiricism Knowing as we do now that logical empiricism was originally a philo-sophical project with cultural and social ambitions, the time is ripe toFile Size: KB.
The battle was on, and what I call Cold War philosophy began its career, not only in fighting the Cold War of ideas, but in structuring US universities – and US society. To be sure, interest in the California Plan seems to have petered out well before California’s anti-communist senate committee was disbanded in Author: John Mccumber.
In 'the Cold War and American Science: ' The Military-Industrial Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford, Stuart Leslie shows how the post -World War II alliance of the U.S. military, high technology corporations, and academia redefined and degraded both American science and the American by: 2 How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science the s have given way to styrofoam coffee cups and fluorescent lights of corporate hotels where philosophers of science, now representing a well-established academic field, convene to network, debate issues, and.
Sociology and Philosophy of Science George Reisch. How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science: To the Icy Slopes of Logic. xiv + pp., illus., figs., index.- How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science - To the Icy Slopes of Logic - by George A.
Reisch Index Index. AAUP. See American Association of University Professors. absolutism, 29– academy: during McCarthy years, 20–21, ; normalization of ideology in, Ackoff, Russell,Addams, Jane, 59 John McCumber, Time in the ditch: American philosophy and the McCarthy era (Evanston, IL, ); George Reisch, How the Cold War transformed philosophy of science: to the icy slopes of logic (Cambridge, ).Cited by:
