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Yearbook 1/1993
Scientific Philosophy: Origins and Developments
Editor: Friedrich Stadler

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Table of Contents

Editorial

VIII

Articles -- Scientific Philosophy: Origins and Developments

Carl G. Hempel, Empiricism in the Vienna Circle and in the Berlin Society for
  Scientific Philosophy. Recollections and Reflections

1
Arne Naess, Logical Empiricism and the Uniqueness of the Schlick Seminar:
  A Personal Experience with Consequences
11
Jaakko Hintikka, Ludwig's Apple Tree: On the Philosophical Relations between
  Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle
27
Gerald Holton, From the Vienna Circle to Harvard Square: The Americanization
   of a European World Conception
47
Peter Galison, The Cultural Meaning of Aufbau 75
Antonia Soulez, The Vienna Circle in France (1935-1937) 95
Nancy Cartwright, Marks and Probabilities: Two Ways to Find Causal Structure 113
Richard Jeffrey From Logical Empiricism to Radical Probabilism 121
Henri Lauener, Why the Distinction between Analytic and Synthetic Statements? 131
Keith Lehrer, Carnap and Reichenbach on Probability with Neurath the Winner 143
Thomas Oberdan, The Synthesis of Logicism and Formalism in
  Carnap's Logical Syntax of Language
157
Adolf Grünbaum, A New Critique of Freud's Theory of Dreams 169


Documentation

Gustav Bergmann, Memories of the Vienna Circle. Letter to Otto Neurath (1938) 193


Background Study

Thomas E. Uebel, Wilhelm Neurath's Opposition to "Materialist" Darwinism 209


Research Report

Thomas A. Mueck/Martin L. Polaschek, ESoftware Support for Isotype - Motivation
  and System Design
229


Reviews

Jour fixe der Vernunft. Der Wiener Kreis und die Folgen Hg. von Paul Kruntorad. Wien 1991.
Geier, M. 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. (Camilla R. Nielsen)
241
Uebel, Th.E. , Overcoming Logical Positivism from Within. The Emergence of
  Neurath's Naturalism in the Vienna Circle's Protocol Sentence Debate.
  Amsterdam 1992. (Eckehart Köhler)
246
Coffa, J.A. , The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap. To the Vienna Station.
  Ed. by Linda Wessels. Cambridge 1991. (Thomas Oberdan)
249
Dear Carnap - Dear Van. The Quine-Carnap Correspondence and Related Work. W.V.
  Quine and Rudolf Carnap. Ed. by Richard Creath. Berkeley 1990. (Thomas E. Uebel)
251
Neurath, O. Gesammelte bildpädagogische Schriften. Hg. von Rudolf Haller und
  Robin Kinross, Wien 1991.
Domsich, J. Visualisierung - Ein kulturelles Defizit? Der Konflikt von Sprache,
  Schrift und Bild. Wien 1991. (Karl H. Müller)
255
Müller, K.H. Symbole, Statistik, Computer, Design. Otto Neuraths Bildstatistik im
  Computerzeitalter. Wien 1991. (Johanna Hofbauer)
263
Zilsel, E. Wissenschaft und Weltanschauung. Aufsätze 1929-1933.
  Hg. von Gerald Mozeti . Wien 1992. (Dietmar Paier)
266
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 1991.
  (Camilla R. Nielsen)
270
Der geistige Anschluß. Philosophie und Politik an der Universität Wien 1930-1950.
   Hg. von Kurt R. Fischer, Franz M. Wimmer. Wien 1993. (George Leaman)
272
Grünbaum, A. Validation in the Clinical Theory of Psychoanalysis.
  Madison 1993. (Kurt R. Fischer)
275


Activities of the Institute 'Vienna Circle'

The Institute 'Vienna Circle'. Information on Founding and Background 279
Vienna-Berlin-Prague. The Rise of Scientific Philosophy. International
  Symposion on 1-4 October 1991
285
Heinrich Gomperz, Karl Popper and the "Austrian Philosophy".
  International Workshop on 8-9 October 1992
293
Order and Chaos in Nature and Society. Chaos and Music.
  International Meeting on 18-21 November 1992
296
Survey: Activities and Preview 299
Index of Names 307