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The philosophy of Joseph Petzoldt: from Mach’s positivism to Einstein’s relativity: by Chiara Russo Krauss, London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2023, pp. viii + 242, $115.00 (hb), ISBN: 978-1-3503-2145-8 (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 32 (1): 237-241. 2023.Nineteenth-century German-speaking scientific philosophy (which is broader than philosophy of science as it concerns every aspect of philosophy from a scientific standpoint and not just science fro...
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12The historian as an ethnographer: Kuhn’s last philosophy of scienceMetascience 33 (1): 43-47. 2024.
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11Explication in the Space of Reasons: What Sellars and Carnap Could Offer to Each OtherTopoi 43 (1): 171-185. 2024.In this paper, we reconsider the highly underrated Carnap–Sellars relationship, arguing that Sellars might be able to provide an interesting resolution to some of Carnap’s finest problems around explication by offering a grand-scale picture of science/common-sense or manifest interactions. The narrative developed here points toward the need for some stratification and re-evaluation of a field of scholarship that all too often still engages in challenging and contradictory dichotomies, underminin…Read more
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13The philosophy of Joseph Petzoldt: from Mach’s positivism to Einstein’s relativityBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 32 (1): 237-241. 2023.Nineteenth-century German-speaking scientific philosophy (which is broader than philosophy of science as it concerns every aspect of philosophy from a scientific standpoint and not just science fro...
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149The Chicago Years (1936-1951)In Christian Dambock & Georg Schiemer (eds.), Rudolf Carnap Handbuch, Metzler Verlag. forthcoming.
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267Modal LogicIn Christian Dambock & Georg Schiemer (eds.), Rudolf Carnap Handbuch, Metzler Verlag. forthcoming.
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446An Introduction to Philosophy of ScienceIn Christian Dambock & Georg Schiemer (eds.), Rudolf Carnap Handbuch, Metzler Verlag. forthcoming.
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6Review of Jeremy Shearmur and Georey Stokes (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Popper. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. x + 394 pp. Hardback ISBN 978-0-521-85645-4. GBP 84.99 (review)Kriterion - Journal of Philosophy 33 (2): 119-122. 2019.
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Science, freedom, democracy : introductionIn Péter Hartl & Adam Tamas Tuboly (eds.), Science, Freedom, Democracy, Routledge. 2021.
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15Thomas Uebel and Christoph Limbeck-Lilienau (Eds.), "The Routledge Handbook of Logical Empiricism."Philosophy in Review 42 (3): 29-31. 2022.
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38Science, Freedom, Democracy (edited book)Routledge. 2021.This book addresses the complex relationship between the values of liberal democracy and the values associated with scientific research. The chapters explore how these values mutually reinforce or conflict with one another, in both historical and contemporary contexts. The contributors utilize various approaches to address this timely subject, including historical studies, philosophical analysis, and sociological case studies. The chapters cover a range of topics including academic freedom and a…Read more
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6Ernest Nagel’s “The Philosophy of Science” Lecture at the Delaware SeminarIn Matthias Neuber & Adam Tamas Tuboly (eds.), Ernest Nagel: Philosophy of Science and the Fight for Clarity, Springer. pp. 315-339. 2021.Among the “Ernest Nagel Papers 1930–1988” at Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library, there is a file at Box 7, entitled “The Philosophy of Science: University of Delaware 1961”. This is the edited text with some editorial comments and polishing.
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8Interview with Ernest Nagel by Remmel NunnIn Matthias Neuber & Adam Tamas Tuboly (eds.), Ernest Nagel: Philosophy of Science and the Fight for Clarity, Springer. pp. 257-314. 2021.
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6Introduction: Ernest Nagel and the Making of Philosophy of Science a ProfessionIn Matthias Neuber & Adam Tamas Tuboly (eds.), Ernest Nagel: Philosophy of Science and the Fight for Clarity, Springer. pp. 1-27. 2021.This chapter provides an overview of the life and philosophy of Ernest Nagel, as well as a summary of the chapters in this volume. Regarding Nagel's philosophy, we focus on his role and activities to stabilize analytic philosophy and make it a profession, his views about the role and nature of history and sociology of science, naturalism, and socially engaged philosophy, and finally his understanding of the relation between science, society, and philosophy.
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9Building a New Thursday Circle. Carnap and Frank in PragueIn Christian Damböck & Gereon Wolters (eds.), Der Junge Carnap in Historischem Kontext: 1918–1935 / Young Carnap in an Historical Context: 1918–1935, Springer Verlag. pp. 243-264. 2021.In 1949, Philipp Frank claimed that he and Rudolf Carnap built up a new center for the scientific world conception in Prague between 1931 and 1935. The aim of this paper is to provide historical evidence and further materials to approach this claim of Frank. Definite answers, however, require more space and contextualization, so I will just sketch some partial but hopefully promising narratives and rudimentary answers. I claim that though Carnap and Frank indeed tried to build a new center, they…Read more
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8The forgotten past: Nikolay Milkov on the history of analytic philosophy: Early analytic philosophy and the German philosophical tradition, by Nikolay Milkov, New York and London, Bloomsbury, 2020, x + 284 pp., £76.50 (Hardcover) ISBN 978-1-3500-8643-2 (review)History of European Ideas 47 (7): 1188-1192. 2021.Despite some tendentious and orthodox accusations, analytic philosophers are very much concerned with their history – that being the case, actually, at least since the 1920s, dating back to the man...
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34The liberation of nature and knowledge: a case study on Hans Reichenbach’s naturalismSynthese 199 (All Things Reichenbach): 9751-9784. 2021.Our main goal in this paper is to present and scrutinize Reichenbach’s own naturalism in our contemporary context, with special attention to competing versions of the concept. By exploring the idea of Reichenbach’s naturalism, we will argue that he defended a liberating, therapeutic form of naturalism, meaning that he took scientific philosophy to be a possible cure for bad old habits and traditional ways of philosophy. For Reichenbach, naturalistic scientific philosophy was a well-established f…Read more
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22Ernest Nagel: Philosophy of Science and the Fight for Clarity (edited book)Springer. 2021.This volume is dedicated to the life and work of Ernest Nagel counted among the influential twentieth-century philosophers of science. Forgotten by the history of philosophy of science community in recent years, this volume introduces Nagel’s philosophy to a new generation of readers and highlights the merits and originality of his works. Best known in the history of philosophy as a major American representative of logical empiricism with some pragmatist and naturalist leanings, Nagel’s interest…Read more
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Neurath Reconsidered. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, vol 336 (edited book)Springer. 2019.
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14The history of understanding in analytic philosophy: around logical empiricism (edited book)Bloomsbury Academic. 2022.Interpretive understanding of human behaviour, known as verstehen, underpins the divide between the social sciences and the natural sciences. Taking a historically orientated approach, this collection offers a fresh take on the development of understanding within analytic philosophy before, during and after logical empiricism. In doing so, it reinvigorates debates on the role of the social sciences within contemporary epistemology. Bringing together leading experts including Martin Kusch, Thomas…Read more
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27The Socio-Ethical Dimension of Knowledge: The Mission of Logical Empiricism (edited book)Springer. 2021.This book studies how the relationship between philosophy, morality, politics, and science was conceived in the Vienna Circle and how this group of philosophers tried to position science as an antidote to totalitarianism and irrationalism. This leads to investigation of the still understudied views of the Vienna Circle on moral philosophy, meta-ethics, and the relationship between philosophy of science and politics. Including papers from an international group of scholars, The Socio-ethical Dime…Read more
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37To the Icy Slopes in the Melting Pot: Forging Logical Empiricisms in the Context of American PragmatismsHopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 11 (1): 27-71. 2021.Most accounts of “logical empiricism in America” take logical empiricism to be a monolithic, or at least a one-dimensional, philosophical group. This picture of logical empiricism has come under well-reasoned attack during the past two decades, but some of the relevant conclusions for the reception-history of the movement were not drawn, or were not drawn as thoroughly as they could have been. Thus, if we want to understand the reception of logical empiricism, we should not talk about the recept…Read more
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21George A. Reisch. The Politics of Paradigms: Thomas S. Kuhn, James B. Conant, and the Cold War “Struggle for Men’s Minds.” (review)Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 10 (2): 605-608. 2020.
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32A cricket game, a train ticket and a vacuum to be filled: Ayer’s logical positivism as a focal point for post-war British cultural strugglesBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 28 (6): 1134-1150. 2020.In 1948, A.J. Ayer was attacked on the pages of The New Statesman and Nation magazine where it was claimed that his views were partly responsible for increasingly Fascist attitudes at Oxford. Ayer...
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47Logical Empiricism and the Physical Sciences: From Philosophy of Nature to Philosophy of Physics (edited book)Routledge. 2021.This volume has two primary aims: to trace the traditions and changes in methods, concepts, and ideas that brought forth the logical empiricists’ philosophy of physics and to present and analyze the logical empiricists’ various and occasionally contrary ideas about the physical sciences and their philosophical relevance. These original chapters discuss these developments in their original contexts and social and institutional environments, thus showing the various fruitful conceptions and philos…Read more
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11A.W. Carus, Michael Friedman, Wolfgang Kienzler, Alan Richardson, & Sven Schlotter (eds.), "Rudolf Carnap: Early Writings, The Collected Works of Rudolf Carnap," Volume 1 (review)Philosophy in Review 40 (3): 99-100. 2020.
Adam Tamas Tuboly
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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Hungarian Academy of SciencesYoung Research Fellow
Areas of Specialization
General Philosophy of Science |
20th Century Philosophy |
20th Century Analytic Philosophy |
Rudolf Carnap |