Logical Empiricism as Critical Theory? The Debate Continues

Abstract: Is logical empiricism incompatible with a critical social science? The longstanding assumption that it is incompatible has been prominent in recent debates about welfare economics. Sen’s development of a critical and descriptively rich welfare economics is taken by writers such as Putnam, Walsh and Sen to involve the excising of the influence of logical empiricism on neo-classical economics. However, this view stands in contrast to the descriptively rich contributions to political economy of members of the left Vienna Circle, such as Otto Neurath. This paper considers the compatibility of the meta-theoretical commitments of Neurath and others in the logical empiricist tradition with this first-order critical political economy.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Logical Empiricism as Critical Theory? The Debate Continues ; volume:30 ; number:2 ; year:2008 ; pages:379-398 ; extent:20 ; Analyse & Kritik ; 30, Heft 2 (2008), 379-398 (gesamt 20)

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: O’Neill, John ; Uebel, Thomas

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.1515/auk-2008-0203
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2404171627460.114183980761
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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