The Vienna Circle and religion

by Ramharter, Esther

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Full title :The Vienna Circle and religion / Esther Ramharter, editor.

Summary

This book is the first systematic and historical account of the Vienna Circle that deals with the relation of logical empiricists with religion as well as theology. Given the standard image of the Vienna Circle as a strong anti-metaphysical group and non-religious philosophical and intellectual movement, this book draws a surprising conclusion, namely, that several members of the famous Moritz Schlick-Circle - e.g., the left wing with Rudolf Carnap, Otto Neurath, Philipp Frank, Edgar Zilsel, but also Schlick himself - dealt with the dualisms of faith/ belief and knowledge, religion and science despite, or because of their non-cognitivist commitment to the values of Enlightenment. One remarkable exception was the philosopher and Rabbi Joseph Schachter, who wrote explicitly on religion and philosophy after the linguistic turn. The book also covers another puzzling figure: the famous logician Kurt Godel, who wrote on theology and the ontological proof of God in his so far unpublished notebooks. The book opens up new perspectives on the Vienna Circle with its internal philosophical and political pluralism and is of value to philosophers, historians and anybody who is interested in the relation between science and religion.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2022.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Springer
Place of Publication:Cham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2022.

Notes

Includes index.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (280 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783030761516, 3030761517
DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-76151-6
oclc:on1303081969
LC Classification:B824.6
Dewey Decimal:146/.42

Editorial -- Part I: The Vienna Circle and Religion -- Chapter 1. Carnaps Fundamental Philosophical Commitment: From Religious Origins to Kantian Non-Cognitivism, 1911-21 (A.W. Carus) -- Chapter 2. Carnaps Non-Cognitivism and His Views on Religion. Against the Background of the Herbartian Philosophy of His Grandfather Friedrich Wilhelm Dorpfeld (Christian Dambock) -- Chapter 3. The Place of Religion. An Open Question in Schlicks Philosophy of Culture (Massimo Ferrari) -- Chapter 4. The Continuous Line from the Formulations of the Magicians to the Formulations of the Sociologists / Otto Neurath on the Anthropology of Magic and Religion (Marco Brusotti) -- Chapter 5. God Never Does Mathematics Hans Hahn on Religion (Julia Schafer) -- Chapter 6. A Rabbi Among the Apostates? Josef Schachter and Religion in the Vienna Circle (Malachi Hacohen) -- Chapter 7. Josef Schachter on Religion and the Philosophy of Language: Preferring Beginnings to Ends (Esther Ramharter) -- Chapter 8. Philipp Frank and the Conference for Science, Philosophy and Religion, 1940-1968 (Friedrich Stadler) -- Chapter 9. Kurt Godels Dogmatic Theology (Tim Lethen) -- Chapter 10. Kurt Godels Reception of Charles Hartsh…