This book studies how the relationship between philosophy, morality, politics, and science was conceived in the Vienna Circle and how this group of philosophers tried to position science as an antidote to totalitarianism and irrationalism.

Part 1 : The Socio-Ethical Dimension of Knowledge - The Mission of Logical Empiricism.- Chapter 1. Introduction (Tuboly).- Chapter 2. Ethics and Morality in the Vienna Circle (Siegetsleitner).- Chapter 3. The Social Virtue of Science. Motivating Structural Objectivity in Logical Empiricism (Richardson).- Chapter 4. Philosophy (and Wissenschaft) Without Politics? Schlick on Nietzsche, German Idealism, and Militarism (Vrahimis).- Chapter 5. Schlick on the Meaning of “Good” (Ambrus).- Chapter 6. Making Logical Positivism Less Logical: The Case of Schlick and von Mises (Tuboly).- Chapter 7. Leo Apostel and Rudolf Carnap: The Development of Logical Empiricist Ethics in Post-War Europe (Dewulf).- Chapter 8. The Cult of Genius and its Critics: Edgar Zilsel and Otto Neurath (Sandner).- Chapter 9. Philipp Frank’s Relativism: Presentation, Appreciation, and Critique (Stamenkovic).- Chapter 10. Alternative Facts, Fake News, Pseudo-Science: New Challenges for a Scientific World-view. AnEssay (Dahms).- Part II: General Part.- Chapter 11. Viennese Lessons: Wittgenstein, Carnap and Schlick (Soames).- Part III: Review Essays.- Chapter 12. George Reisch, The Politics of Paradigms. Thomas S. Kuhn, James Conant and the Cold War “Struggle for Men´s Minds“. Albany: State University of New York Press 2019 (Dahms).- Chapter 13. Amrei C. Joerchel, Gerhard Benetka (Eds.), Memories of Gustav Ichheiser. Life and Work of a Social Scientist (Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences Bd.1). Cham: Springer 2018 (Maria Czwik and Bastian Stoppelkamp).

This book studies how the relationship between philosophy, morality, politics, and science was conceived in the Vienna Circle and how this group of philosophers tried to position science as an antidote to totalitarianism and irrationalism.  This leads to investigation of the still understudied views of the Vienna Circle on moral philosophy, meta-ethics, and the relationship between philosophy of science and politics.  Including papers from an international group of scholars, The Socio-ethical Dimension of Knowledge: The Mission of Logical Empiricism addresses these topics and makes them available to scholars in the field of history of philosophy of science.

A new collection dedicated to an underexplored field Brings together a group of younger and well-established scholars on an important topic Treats many socially relevant issues that are hotly debated today