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IVC Yearbook 4/1996
Encyclopedia and Utopia. The Life and Work of Otto Neurath (1882-1945).
Editors: Elisabeth Nemeth Friedrich Stadler

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Contributors
Amann,   Cartwright/Uebel,   Chapel,   Dahms,   Dvorák  , Fabian,   Faludi,   Grundmann,   Haller,   Jansen,   Kräutler,   Miles,   Mormann,   Müller,   Nemeth,   P. Neurath,   O. Neurath,   Reisch,   Skopec,   Soulez,   Stadler,   Tega,   Uebel,   Stöltzner




Table of Contents

Editorial

IX

Articles

Encylopedia And Utopia the Life and Work of Otto Neurath

Friedrich Stadler, Otto Neurath -- Encylopedia and Utopia 1
Elisabeth Nemeth, Otto Neurath's Vision of Science between Utopia and Encyclopedia 7

I. Otto Neurath -- Life, Work, and Influence

Paul Neurath, Otto Neurath (1882-1945) -- Life and Work 15
Rudolf Haller, Otto Neurath -- For and Against 29
Nancy Cartwright and Thomas E. Uebel, Philosophy in the Earthly Plane 39

II. Scientific World Conception -- Unity of Science -- Encyclopedia

Hans-Joachim Dahms , Vienna Circle and French Enlightenment -- A Comparison of
   Diderots Encyclopédie with Neurath's International Encyclopedia of Unified Science
53
Walter Tega , Atlases, Cities, Mosaics -- Neurath and the Encyclopé 63
George Reisch Terminology in Action: Neurath and the International Encyclopedia
  of Unified Science
79
Thomas Mormann , Encyclopedism as an Anti-Cartesian Account of
  Language and Science
87
Thomas E. Uebel, Normativity and Convention -- On the Constructivist Element of
  Neurath's Naturalism
97
Michael Stöltzner, The Auxiliary Motive in the Forest and in Optics 113
Thomas Grundmann, Can Science be Likened to a Well-Written Fairy Tale? A
  Contemporary Reply to Schlick's Objections to Neurath's Coherence Theory
127

III. Pictorial Statistics -- Isotype -- Museology

Karl H. Müller, Otto Neurath and Contemporary Knowledge and Information
  Societies -- A Newly Established Liaison
135
Angela Jansen, Isotype and Infographics 143
David Skopec, The Changing Media of Visual Statistics 157
Enrico Chapel, Otto Neurath and the CIAM -- The International Pictorial Language
  as a Notational System for Town Planning
167
Roger Miles, Otto Neurath and the Modern Public Museum: The Case of the
  Natural History Museum (London)
183
Hadwig Kräutler, "Scientific World Conceptions" and Museum Planning 191

IV. Economy, Sociology, and Planning

Andreas Faludi, Otto Neurath and Planning Theory 201
Anton Amann, Theories of Life Conditions since Otto Neurath -- Some Fragments 215
Antonia Soulez, Otto Neurath or The Will to Plan 221
Johann Dvorák , Otto Neurath, Proletarian Democracy' and Social Planning 233

Report -- Documentation

Otto Neurath, Visual Education -- Humanisation versus Popularisation (ed.
  by Juha Manninen)
245
Reinhard Fabian, The Otto Neurath Nachlass in Haarlem (NL) 337

Reviews

Nancy Cartwright/Jordi Cat/Lola Fleck/Thomas E. Uebel: Otto Neurath -- Philosophy
  Between Science and Politics(Michael Heidelberger)
357
Otto Neurath: Gesammelte ökonomische, sozialwissenschaftliche und politische
  Schriften, ed. by Rudolf Haller (Elisabeth Nemeth)
360
John Blackmore (ed.): Ludwig Boltzmann: His Later Life and Philosophy, 1900-1906
  2 vols.
Dieter Flamm (ed.): Ludwig Boltzmann, Henriette von Aigentler Briefwechsel
  (Anne J. Kox)
362
Hans Hahn: Gesammelte Abhandlungen/Collected Works, ed. by Leopold Schmetterer
  and Karl Sigmund (Walter Schachermayer)
365
Ramón Cirera: Otto Carnap i el Cercle de Viena -- Empirisme i sintaxis lógica / Carnap
   and the Vienna Circle -- Empiricism and Logical Syntax
368
Kurt Gödel: Ensayos inéditos / Unpublished Philosophical Essays, ed. by
  A. Rodríguez-Consuegra
368
Ramón Cirera/Andoni Ibarra/ Thomas Mormann (eds.): El programa de Carnap.
  Ciencia, lenguaje, filosofía (Jesús Padilla-Gálvez)
368
Kurt Rudolf Fischer/ Friedrich Stadler (eds.): Wahrnehmung und Gegenstandswelt --
  Zum Lebenswerk von Egon Brunswik (1903 -- 1955)(Erich Mittenecker)
376
Elisabeth Leinfellner/Hubert Schleichert (eds.): Fritz Mauthner -- Das Werk eines
  kritischen Denkers (Camilla R. Nielsen)
376
Wilhelm Baum/Kay E. Gonzälez: Karl R. Popper. 383
Manfred Geier: Karl Popper (Kurt Rudolf Fischer) 383
Bernard d'Espagnat: Veiled Reality -- An Analysis of Present-Day Quantum Mechanical
  Concepts (Michael Stöltzner)
385
Rainer Hegselmann/Heinz-Otto Peitgen (eds.): Modelle sozialer Dynamiken --
  Ordnung, Chaos und Komplexität (Peter Fleissner)
389
Kurt Rudolf Fischer (ed.): Das goldene Zeitalter der österreichischen Philosophie.
  Ein Lesebuch (Charles Kasdon)
392

Activities of the Institute Vienna Circle
Survey 1996 395
Preview 1997 396