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Edgar Zilsel: Philosopher, Historian, Sociologist

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    Chapter 1 Introduction
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    Chapter 2 From the Problem of Genius to the Integration of Philosophy, History, and Sociology of Science: Edgar Zilsel’s Life and Work Viewed in the Context of Recent Historiography and Research
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    Chapter 3 The Circumstances of Edgar Zilsel’s Failed Habilitation. A Case-Study on the Instigations of Anti-Semitic and Conservative Academic Networks in the 1920s at the University of Vienna
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    Chapter 4 On Thermodynamics and Society: Edgar Zilsel’s Epistemology and Politics Across Disciplinary Boundaries
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    Chapter 5 Edgar Zilsel: The Excellent Qualifications of an Awkward Man
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    Chapter 6 The Law of Large Numbers. Edgar Zilsel’s Attempt at the Foundation of Physical and Socio-Historical Laws
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    Chapter 7 Facts of Nature or Products of Reason? Edgar Zilsel Caught Between Ontological and Epistemic Conceptions of Natural Laws
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    Chapter 8 Applications and Applicability: Zilsel’s Criticism of Carnap’s Early View on Protocol Statements
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    Chapter 9 Laws, Causality, and Retribution – Hans Kelsen and Edgar Zilsel. A Marginal Note
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    Chapter 10 How to Explain the Modern Personality Cult. Some Reflections on Edgar Zilsel’s Studies on Modern Genius-Veneration
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    Chapter 11 Insufficient Recognition: Comparing Julian Hirsch’s and Edgar Zilsel’s Analyses of the Glorification of Personalities
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    Chapter 12 The Religion of Genius Taken Seriously. Edgar Zilsel’s Die Geniereligion (1918) Reviewed as a Critical Philosophical Treatise
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    Chapter 13 The Epistemological Foundations of the Zilsel Thesis
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    Chapter 14 Social and Epistemic Interactions Between Artisans and Scholars in Iberia. A Zilselian Reading of Early Modern Maritime Expansion
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    Chapter 15 Engineering and Mathematical Logic. Another “Zilsel Case” from the History of Computing
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    Chapter 16 Zilsel’s Genius, or the Epistemic Fecundity of Neutrality
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    Chapter 17 Zilsel , Zilsel: Reconnecting with an Intellectual Legacy That Deserves to Be Revived
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    Chapter 18 Pragmatism and the A Priori: Lewis, Carnap and Ramsey
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    Chapter 19 The First Vienna Circle: What Kind of Formation Was It—And Why Does It Matter?
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    Chapter 20 Jacques Bouveresse (1940–2021). How to Remain Rationalist in a Postmodern World?
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    Chapter 21 Review Essay: David Edmonds Edmonds, David , The Murder of Professor Schlick: Schlick, Moritz The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle . Princeton and Oxford. Princeton University Press 2020; xiv +313 pp. ISBN: 9780691164908. Karl Sigmund Sigmund, Karl , Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science . New York: Basic Books 2017. xviii + 449 pp. ISBN 9780465096954. Karl Sigmund Sigmund, Karl , Sie nannten sich der Wiener Kreis: Exaktes Denken am Rand des Untergangs . 2., wesentlich erweiterte Auflage. Vienna: Springer 2018. 379 pp. ISBN 9783658180218.
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    Chapter 22 Review Essay: Eva-Maria Engelen (Ed.), Kurt Gödel: Philosophische Notizbücher/Philosophical Notebooks. Volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter 2019. 241 pp. ISBN: 9783110583748. Volume 2, Berlin: De Gruyter 2020. 550 pp. ISBN: 9783110674095
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    Chapter 23 Review: Dejan Makovec/Stewart Shapiro (Eds.), Friedrich Waismann: The Open Texture of Analytic Philosophy (History of Analytic Philosophy). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 2019. 343 pp. ISBN: 978-3-030-25007-2
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    Chapter 24 Review: Cheryl Misak, Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers . Oxford: Oxford University Press 2020. 544 pp. ISBN: 978-0198755357
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Title
Edgar Zilsel: Philosopher, Historian, Sociologist
Published by
Springer International Publishing, March 2022
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-93687-7
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978-3-03-093686-0, 978-3-03-093687-7
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Romizi, Donata, Wulz, Monika, Nemeth, Elisabeth

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