Table of Contents

Editorial.- From the Vienna Circle to the Institute Vienna Circle: On the Viennese Legacy in Contemporary Philosophy of Science; Friedrich Stadler.- I.- A Matter of Substance? Gaston Bachelard on Chemistry’s Philosophical Lessons; Cristina Chimisso.- Carnap’s Aufbau and Physicalism: What Does the “Mutual Reducibility” of Psychological and Physical Objects Amount to?; Thomas Uebel.- On the Relationship between Neuroscience and Philosophy: the Case of Sleep and Dreaming; Claude Debru.- Metaphysics in the Thirties: And Why Should Anyone Care Now? Richard Creath.- II.- Probabilistic Epistemology: A European Tradition; Maria Carla Galavotti.- Reductionism today; Michael Esfeld.- Betting Interpretation and the Problem of Interference; Wlodek Rabinowicz and Lina Eriksson.- III.- Mathematics and Experience; Ladislav Kvasz.- Gödel and Carnap. Platonism versus Conventionalism?; Eckehart Köhler.- What is the Status of the Hardy-Weinberg Law within Population Genetics?; Pablo Lorenzano.- IV.- Kazimierz Twardowski and the Development of Philosophy of Science in Poland; Jan Woleński.- V.- Vienna Circle on Determinism; Tomasz Placek.- Infinite Idealizations; John D. Norton.- VI.-  Political Polyphony. Otto Neurath and Politics Reconsidered; Günther Sandner.- Kelsen’s Legal Positivism and the Challenge of Nazi Law; Herlinde Pauer-Studer.- VII.- Biased Coins. A Model for Higherorder Probabilities; Jeanne Peijnenburg AND David Atkinson.- Is Logical Empiricism Compatible with Scientifi c Realism?; Matthias Neuber.- VIII.- Does the Unity of Science have a Future?; Jan Faye.- Is There a European Philosophy Science? A Wake-up call; Gereon Wolters.- General Part.-Report/Documentation.- Vienna Circle Historiographies; Veronika Hofer and Michael Stöltzner.- 18th Vienna Circle Lecture / 18. Wiener Kreis Vorlesung.- Husserl and Gödel on Mathematical Objects and our Access to them; Dagfinn Føllesdal, Review Essay.- Logical Empiricism in Historical Perspective. Recent Works on Moritz Schlick; Massimo Ferrari.- Reviews.- After Postmodernism. A Naturalistic Reconstruction of the Humanities, Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2012. (Thomas Uebel).- Jan Faye.- The Tyranny of Science. Edited by Eric Oberheim. Cambridge: Polity Press 2011. (Daniel B. Kuby); Paul Feyerabend Il valore della verità. Milano: Guerini e Associati, 2011. (Beatrice Collina); Paolo Parrini.- Der Wiener Kreis in Ungarn / The Vienna Circle in Hungary. Veröffentlichungen des Instituts Wiener.- Kreis, Bd. 16. Wien: Springer 2011. (Radek Schuster); András Máté, Miklós Rédei and Friedrich Stadler (Eds.).- Fritz Mauthner. Scepticisme linguistique et modernité. Une biographie intellectuelle. Éditions Bartillat: Paris 2012. Jacques Le Rider, Fritz Mauthner. Le langage. Translation of “Die Sprache” from German and foreword by Jacques Le Rider, Éditions Bartillat: Paris 2012. (Camilla Nielsen); Jacques Le Rider.- Activities of the Institute Vienna Circle.- Index of Names.- Abstracts.

Reviews

“The 17th volume of the Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook contains many insightful chapters, which might be rightfully taken as reference points for further research for anyone working inside and/or outside the European philosophy of science scene.” (Adam Tamas Tuboly, Science & Education, August, 2016)