Education, Enlightenment and Positivism: The Vienna Circle's Scientific World-Conception Revisited

Uebel, Thomas

doi:10.1023/b:sced.0000018469.45137.30

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“…Neurath was politically active (Kallen, 1946) and ethically minded (Uebel, 2004). His value system, as well as that of other logical empiricist colleagues, supported 'critical reflection' on axiological values (Feigl, 2004(Feigl, [1955), was founded upon a 'sceptic pluralism' (Neurath, 1946) and reflexivity (O'Neill and Uebel, 2004;Uebel, 2004) that chimes with Critical Marketing. Furthermore, moral judgments and claims to knowledge were 'conditional' on a given 'human-social situation' (Feigl, 2004(Feigl, [1955).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Critical marketing studies: logical empiricism, ‘critical performativity’ and marketing practice

Tadajewski

2010

Marketing Theory

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According to recent statements by prominent Critical Marketing scholars, there remains a problem of how to clarify this ambiguous label for interested colleagues. Beyond the usual gestures to paradigmatic pluralism, epistemological reflexivity and ontological denaturalization (Fournier and Grey, 2000; Tadajewski and Brownlie, 2008; Whittle and Spicer, 2008), I argue that Critical Marketing Studies possesses similar characteristics to the vein of thought promoted by the founding members of the Vienna Circle. Critical Marketing and logical empiricism, I suggest, are not the diametrical opposites that we might otherwise suppose. Subsequently I claim that Critical Marketing Studies needs to engage with marketing actors and this requires a different relationship between Critical scholars and practitioners than may have been the case previously. Finally, I provide an alternative way of thinking about theory production in marketing.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Critical marketing studies: logical empiricism, ‘critical performativity’ and marketing practice

Tadajewski

2010

Marketing Theory

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“…This has partially caused the contemporary image of philosophy of science as detached from flash and blood science practice. However, recent history of philosophy has shown that inter-wars philosophers of science did not conceive of philosophical practice as ''other'' from social and political engagement (Uebel 1998(Uebel , 2004 helping also the recovery of a ''sociology of knowledge'' more or less explicit in the genetic phase of the discipline (Richardson 2000;Uebel 2000). 3 The privileged role of sociology of science in the field of STS in terms of its methodological and academic predominance is documented and discussed in Coniglione (2009b) and Viola (2009).…”

Section: Multidisciplinary Versus Interdisciplinary Integration To Stsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Once Upon a Time” Philosophy of Science: STS, Science Policy and the Semantic View of Scientific Theories

Viola

2009

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Is a policy-friendly philosophy of science possible? In order to respond this question, I consider a particular instance of contemporary philosophy of science, the semantic view of scientific theories, by placing it in the broader methodological landscape of the integration of philosophy of science into STS (Science and Technology Studies) as a component of the overall contribution of the latter to science policy. In that context, I defend a multi-disciplinary methodological integration of the special discipline composing STS against a reductionist interdisciplinary unification, arguing that if STS wants to contribute to policy advising by constructing narratives of science practice feasible for science policy both in terms of descriptive completeness and intelligibility, then it must avoid the explanatory reductionism tendencies of special disciplines in interdisciplinary contexts. This would favour, at the same time, a relaxation of esoteric language. On this basis, it seems that the semantic view is one right candidate among other approaches in the philosophy of science for facilitating the integration of the methodologically different contributions to STS toward policy objectives. In fact, besides offering a more realistic and descriptively complete picture of science practice with respect to its predecessor in the philosophy of science, namely the syntactic view, the semantic view is also able to capture some aspects of science practice that elude even sociological approaches to STS, thus inviting different perspective on the same subject matter.

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“…1 Teachers and students can only benefit from such discussion and engagement. Aspects of the topic have been covered in the journal-culture (Suchting 1994), naturalism (Fishman and Boudry 2013;Mahner 2012), positivism (Uebel 2004), Darwinism (Smith 2010), religion (Mahner and Bunge 1996;Fishman 2009, andcontributions to vol. 5, no.…”

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Reflections on 25 Years of Journal Editorship

Matthews

2015

Sci & Educ

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These reflections range over some distinctive features of the journal Science & Education, they acknowledge in a limited way the many individuals who over the past 25 years have contributed to the success and reputation of the journal, they chart the beginnings of the journal, and they dwell on a few central concerns-clear writing and the contribution of HPS to teacher education. The reflections also revisit the much-debated and written-upon philosophical and pedagogical arguments occasioned by the rise and possible demise of constructivism in science education.

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Education, Enlightenment and Positivism: The Vienna Circle's Scientific World-Conception Revisited

Cited by 22 publications

References 13 publications

Critical marketing studies: logical empiricism, ‘critical performativity’ and marketing practice

Critical marketing studies: logical empiricism, ‘critical performativity’ and marketing practice

“Once Upon a Time” Philosophy of Science: STS, Science Policy and the Semantic View of Scientific Theories

Reflections on 25 Years of Journal Editorship

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