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8The Rolling Stones and Philosophy: It's Just a Thought Away (edited book)Open Court. 2011.From their commanding role in the so-called British Invasion of the early 1960s to their status as the elder statesmen of rock and roll, the Stones have become more than an evanescent phenomenon in pop culture. They have become a touchstone not only for the history of our times?their performance at the Altamont Raceway marked the "end of the sixties," while their 1990 concert in Prague helped Czechoslovakia and other eastern bloc nations celebrate their newfound freedom out from under Moscow's t…Read more
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4The pragmatics of bullshit, intelligently designedIn Hardcastle Reisch (ed.), Bullshit and Philosophy, Open Court. pp. 33--47. 2006.
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2From the “life of the present” to the icy slopes of logic”: Logical empiricism, the unity of science movement, and the cold warIn A. Richardson & T. Uebel (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism, Cambridge University Press. pp. 58--87. 2007.
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A History of the "International Encyclopedia of Unified Science"Dissertation, The University of Chicago. 1995.This dissertation examines the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, founded and edited by Otto Neurath, Rudolf Carnap, and Charles Morris in 1937. Topics treated include the ideal of unified science within the logical positivism of the Vienna Circle of philosophers, the birth of the Unity of Science Movement, the publication of the Encyclopedia by the University of Chicago Press, and the slow demise of the project during and after the 1940's. Neurath's, Carnap's, and Morris's conceptio…Read more
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On the International encyclopedia, the Neurath-Carnap disputes, and the Second-World WarIn Paolo Parrini, Wes Salmon & Merrilee Salmon (eds.), Logical Empiricism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Pittsburgh University Pres. pp. 94--108. 2003.
George Reisch
Northwestern University
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