Edgar Zilsel : philosopher, historian, sociologist / Donata Romizi, Monika Wulz, Elisabeth Nemeth, editors.
Romizi, Donata, editor.; Wulz, Monika, editor.; Nemeth, Elisabeth, editor.
2022
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Title
Edgar Zilsel : philosopher, historian, sociologist / Donata Romizi, Monika Wulz, Elisabeth Nemeth, editors.
ISBN
9783030936877 (electronic bk.)
3030936872 (electronic bk.)
9783030936860
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93687-7
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Cham : Springer, 2022.
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English
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1 online resource (ix, 421 pages) : illustrations.
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10.1007/978-3-030-93687-7 doi
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B3396
Dewey Decimal Classification
170.92
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This book provides a new all-round perspective on the life and work of Edgar Zilsel (1891-1944) as a philosopher, historian, and sociologist. He was close to the Vienna Circle and has been hitherto almost exclusively referred to in terms of the so-called "Zilsel thesis" on the origins of modern science. Much beyond this "thesis", Zilsel's brilliant work provides original insights on a broad number of topics, ranging from the philosophy of probability and statistics to the concept of "genius", from the issues of scientific laws and theories to the sociological background of science and philosophy, and to the political analysis of the problems of his time. Praised by Herbert Feigl as an "outstanding brilliant mind", Zilsel, being as a Social-Democrat of Jewish origins, mostly led a life of hardship marked by emigration and coming to a sudden and tragic end by suicide in 1944. The impossibility of an academic career has hindered the reception of Zilsel's scientific work for a long time. This volume is a contribution to its late reception, providing new insights especially into his work during his years in Vienna; moreover, it shows the heuristic value of Zilsel's ideas for future Scholar research -- in philosophy, history, and sociology.
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Romizi, Donata, editor.
Wulz, Monika, editor.
Nemeth, Elisabeth, editor.
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Vienna Circle Institute yearbook ; v. 27. 2215-1818
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Part I: Edgar Zilsel: Philosopher, Historian, Sociologist
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. From the Problem of Genius to the Integration of Philosophy, History, and Sociology of Science: Edgar Zilsel's Life and Work Viewed in the Context of Recent Historiography and Research
Chapter 3. The Circumstances of Edgar Zilsel's Failed Habilitation. A Case Study on the Instigations of Anti-Semitic and Conservative Academic Networks in the 1920s at the University of Vienna
Chapter 4. On Thermodynamics and Society: Zilsel's Epistemology and Politics Across Disciplinary Boundaries
Chapter 5. Edgar Zilsel: Excellent Qualifications of an Awkward Man
Chapter 6. The Law of Large Numbers. Edgar Zilsel's Attempt at the Foundation of Physical and Socio-historical Laws
Chapter 7. Facts of Nature or Products of Reason? Edgar Zilsel Caught Between Ontological and Epistemic Conceptions of Natural Laws
Chapter 8. Applications and Applicability. Zilsel's Criticism of Carnap's Early View on Protocol Statements
Chapter 9. Laws, Causality, and Retribution : Hans Kelsen and Edgar Zilsel. A Marginal Note
Chapter 10. How to Explain the Modern Personality Cult. Some Reflections on Edgar Zilsel's Studies on the Modern Genius-Veneration
Chapter 11. Insufficient Recognition: Comparing Julian Hirsch's and Edgar Zilsel's Analyses of the Glorification of Personalities
Chapter 12. The Religion of Genius Taken Seriously. Edgar Zilsel's Die Geniereligion (1918) Reviewed as a Critical Philosophical Treatise
Chapter 13. The Epistemological Foundations of the Zilsel Thesis
Chapter 14. Social and Epistemic Interactions Between Artisans and Scholars in Iberia. A Zilselian Reading of Early Modern Maritime Expansion
Chapter 15. Engineering and Mathematical Logic. Another 'Zilsel-Case' From the History of Computing
Chapter 16. Zilsel's Genius, or the Epistemic Fecundity of Neutrality
Chapter 17. Zilsel, Zilsel: Reconnecting With an Intellectual Legacy That Deserves to be Revived
Part II: General Part
Chapter 18. Pragmatism and the A Priori: Lewis, Carnap and Ramsey
Chapter 19. The First Vienna Circle: What Kind of Formation Was it
and Why Does it Matter?
Chapter 20. Obituary: Jacques Bouveresse (1940-2021). How to Remain Rationalist in a Postmodern World?
Part III: Reviews
Chapter 21. David Edmonds, The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle, Princeton: Princeton University Press 2020; Karl Sigmund, Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science, New York: Basic Books 2017; Karl Sigmund, Sie nannten sich der Wiener Kreis: Exaktes Denken am Rand des Untergangs, Vienna: Springer 2018
Chapter 22. Eva-Maria Engelen (Ed.), Kurt Gödel: Philosophische Notizbücher/Philosophical Notebooks. Volume 1 and Volume 2, Berlin: De Gruyter 2019/2020
Chapter 23. Dejan Makovec/Stewart Shapiro (Eds.), Friedrich Waismann: The Open Texture of Analytic Philosophy, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 2019
Chapter 24. Cheryl Misak, Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Power, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2020.

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