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.

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• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: 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)

Contributors, Places and Time

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

Further information

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