Preface
1. Hapsburg Origins: The First Vienna Circle
2. In Einstein’s Shadow: The Reign of Relativity
3. From Red Vienna: A Blazing Manifesto
4. Musicians without Musical Ability: The Rejection of Metaphysics
5. Radical Empiricism: Physics and the Unity of Science
6. Logic by Convention: The Veil of Tolerance
7. Lurching towards the Holocaust: Globalization, Murder, Exile
8. The Icy Slopes of Logic: Reconfiguration in the United States
9. The Legacy: Philosophy and Science in the Twenty-First Century.
Acknowledgments
Sources
References
Index
Biography
Sahotra Sarkar is Professor of Philosophy and of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is the author of ten books, including Doubting Darwin: Creationist Designs on Evolution, Systematic Conservation Planning, and Environmental Philosophy: From Theory to Practice. He edited the six-volume Science and Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Basic Works of Logical Empiricism. He serves on the editorial boards of the journals Analytic Philosophy and Biological Theory.
"A short but hugely significant volume which presents a new story about the Vienna Circle at the occasion of its centenary. What also makes it special is the personality of the author: a trained philosopher and scientist with a good historical vein, who learnt many of his perspectives from students of the leading logical empiricists. It is a well-written, comprehensive book with an engaging narrative." - Adam Tamas Tuboly, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
"The best, short account of the history and broader significance of the Vienna Circle." - Jordi Cat, Indiana University, USA
