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a priori, and what is more, to a rejection based ultimately on a posteriori findings; in other words, the "pure" science of nature in Kant's sense of the term had proved to be, not only not pure, but even false. As for logic and mathematics, the decisive
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VIENNA CIRCLE COLLECTION
HENK L. MULDER,
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Boston University, Boston, Mass., US.A.
ROBERT S. COHEN,
BRIAN McGUINNESS,
The Queen's College, Oxford, England
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Institute for Science and Art, Vienna, Austria VOLUME 19
VOLUME EDITOR: BRIAN McGUINNESS
UNIFIED SCIENCE The Vienna Circle Monograph Series originally edited by Otto Neurath, now in an English edition
With an Introduction by RAINER HEGSELMANN Translations by HANSKAAL Edited by BRIAN McGUINNESS
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Einheitswissenschaft. English. Unified science. (Vienna circle collection; v. 19) Translation of: Einheitswissenschaft, Bibliography: p. Includes index. l. Logical positivism. 2. Science - Philosophy. I. Neurath, Otto, 1882-1945. II. McGuinness, Brian. III. Einheitswissenschaft. IV. Title. V. Series. B824.6.E3713 1987 141'.42 87-26498 ISBN-13: 978-94-010-8218-1 e-ISBN-13: 978-94-009-3865-6 001: 10.1007/978-94-009-3865-6
Introduction and Articles 1-7 translated from the German by Hans Kaal Published by D. Reidel Publishing Company, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, Holland. Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 101 Philip Drive, Norwell, MA 02061, U.S.A. In all other countries, sold and distributed by Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, P.O. Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, Holland.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
EDITOR'S NOTE INTRODUCTION
VB
by Rainer Hegselmann
IX
THE MONOGRAPHS
1.
OTTO NEURATH /
2.
HANS HAHN /
Unified Science and Psychology (1932)
Logic, Mathematics, and Knowledge of
Nature (1933) 3. 4.
1 24
RUDOLF CARNAP /
The Task of the Logic of Science
(1934)
46
What Is Meant by a Rational Economic Theory? (1935)
67
OTTO NEURATH /
5.
PHILIPP FRANK /
6.
Towards an Encyclopedia of Unified Science (1937). Lectures by Otto Neurath, Egon Brunswik, Clark L. Hull, Gerrit Mannoury, and J.H. Woodger
