Andrew Robinson reviews Exact Thinking in Demented Times: the Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science by Karl Sigmund Philosophers in exile: Albert Einstein in 1954 with Kurt ...

Human Action by Ludwig von Mises is not just another book on economics, although its economic content is excellent and ...

Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundation of Science. By Karl Sigmund. Basic Books; 449 pages; $32 and £25. ON OCTOBER 21st 1916 Friedrich Adler, a ...

VIENNA – A certain amount of abstraction is hard to avoid at events like BIO Europe. At this week's meeting there's been no shortage of panels populated with old and wise big pharma executives and ...

Thomas E. Uebel has recently claimed that, contrary to popular opinion, none of the philosophers of the Vienna Circle of Logical Positivists were proponents of epistemological foundationalism.

If the influence of philosophical works could be measured on a word-for-word basis, Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is possibly top of the pile. Less than 80 pages long, it was ...