De Gruyter History of Philosophy and Science
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Herausgegeben von:
Catherine Kendig
The history of philosophy and of science should not be conceived as distinct enterprises, nor are they. There is a plurality of methods in current scholarship for investigating the history of the engagement between philosophy and science. This series will draw on that scholarship to illuminate the development of theories in the physical sciences, the life sciences, the social sciences, and the human sciences, and the connections between them. A historical approach to philosophy and science can explain how theories developed in the way they did. Uncovering the basis for decisions in the history of science can reveal the connections between scientific problems and the methods for their solution, conceptual and material, available at the time. Scientific disagreement can be illuminated by a detailed analysis of the basis of that disagreement. The history of science is entering into a period of change: histories of the environment and of environmental science, the history of medicine, social histories of the sciences, and history of the scientific approach to development and economics, provide platforms for the analysis, evaluation, and assessment of scientific history as a social and political phenomenon. This aspect always has been a part of the approach of the history of philosophy of science, but a new urgency accompanies their study. Books in the series focus on history of philosophy in its relationship to science, which will include, of necessity, deep inquiry into the histories of philosophy and of science themselves, in their social, political, and economic aspects.
Editorial Advisory Board
Candis Callison, University of British Columbia; Deborah Coen, Yale University; Heidi Grasswick, Middlebury College; Anthony Kwame Harrison, Virginia Tech; Catherine Herfeld, University of Zurich; David Ludwig, Wageningen University; Dana Mahr, University of Geneva; Michela Massimi, University of Edinburgh; Carla Nappi, University of Pittsburgh; Omar Nasim, University of Regensburg; Wendy Parker, Virginia Tech; Thomas Pradeu, CNRS; Britt Rusert, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Jutta Schickore, Indiana University Bloomington; Thomas Sturm, Autonomous University of Barcelona; Paul Thompson, Michigan State University; Kyle Whyte, University of Michigan; Robert A. Wilson, University of Western Australia.
Information zu Autoren / Herausgebern
Catherine Kendig, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA; Lydia Patton, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA; Alan Richardson, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Fachgebiete
How did immigrant scholars such as Rudolf Carnap, Max Horkheimer, and Alfred Schütz influence the development of American philosophy? Why was the U.S. community more receptive to logical empiricism than to critical theory or phenomenology? This volume brings together fifteen historians of philosophy to explore the impact of the intellectual migration.
In the 1930s, the rise of fascism forced dozens of philosophers to flee to the United States. Prominent logical empiricists acquired positions at prestigious U.S. universities. Critical theorists moved their Frankfurt School to Columbia University. And a group of phenomenologists taught at the New School for Social Research. Though many refugee scholars acquired some American following, logical empiricism had the biggest impact on academic philosophy. The exiled empiricists helped the country turn into a bastion of ‘analytic philosophy’ after the war. Phenomenology and critical theory became prominent schools from the 1970s onwards and continue to be influential in American philosophy today.
This is the first book to investigate to the migration from an integrated perspective, bringing together historians of American philosophy, logical empiricism, phenomenology, and critical theory.
