Review of History of Philosophy of Science Books

  From Common Good to a Theory and Practice of Common Good: Hans Radder on Technology, Science, and Society   Hans Radder:  From Commodification to the Common Good: Reconstructing Science, Technology, and Society . Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019, pp. x +299. Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8229-4579-6,  $45.00. R     Technology, science, and society are terms that are notoriously interwoven on many levels, and famously hard to disentangle satisfactorily. In his latest book,  From Commodification to the Common Good: Reconstructing Science, Technology, and Science , Hans Radder did not try to make a sharp distinction between these fields to approach them separately. Rather, he made a novel book about how to consider science and technology within their social outfit in a systematic and organic form.             What drives Radder is a general concern about the historical development of sc...

  Manifesto for a Future Research: Vienna Circle and the Artistic World-Conception   Ulrich Arnswald, Friedrich Stadler, and Peter Weibel (eds.),  Der Wiener Kreis – Aktualität in Wissenschaft, Literatur, Architektur und Kunst.  Wien: LIT Verlag, 2019, pp. 298. Paperback ISBN 978-3-643-50937-6,  34,90 €.   If logical empiricism is known for something, then it is their work on the logico-epistemological side of the natural sciences, including formal logic and mathematics. On has to be more precise, of course, as logical empiricists, in general, did not care much about most of the natural sciences; core members of the movement – such as Schlick, Carnap, Reichenbach, and Frank – studied physics, thus theoretical physics played the most important role among the natural sciences. When it turned out that quantum mechanics might have some importance for the interpretation and understanding of biology and life sciences, then some logical empiricists turned their at...

  Vienna Circle: The Director’s Cut   David Edmonds: The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2020. Hardcover ISBN: 9780691164908. pp. xiv +313.  $27.95     „In came an eight-hour working day and unemployment benefits. In came an impressive housing program, 64,000 dwellings in vast blocks, accommodating 200,000 people (a tenth of the city’s population). In came rent control. Major investment went into hospitals and public health, and money flowed to set up and support libraries, parks, and sports facilities. Education was given a high priority, and not just in schools. Over the years there developed an extensive network of adult evening classes. The aim was to improve the minds of the masses, both as an end in itself and also because an educated worker, as everyone knew (or thought they knew), is a socialist worker. While many leftist European parties without power were promoting p...