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Adam Tamas Tuboly's review essay of Milkov’s Early Analytic Philosophy and the German Philosophical Tradition has been published in History of European Ideas.

Routledge has published the edited volume on

Logical Empiricism and the Physical Sciences
(edited by Sebastian Lutz and Ádám Tamás Tuboly)

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 philosophies behind the history of 20th-century philosophy of science.

Logical Empiricism and the Natural Sciences is divided into three thematic sections. Part I surveys the influences on logical empiricism’s philosophy of science and physics. It features chapters on Maxwell’s role in the worldview of logical empiricism, on Reichenbach’s account of objectivity, on the impact of Poincaré on Neurath’s early views on scientific method, Frank’s exchanges with Einstein about philosophy of physics, and on the forgotten role of Kurt Grelling. Part II focuses on specific physical theories, including Carnap’s and Reichenbach’s positions on Einstein’s theory of general relativity, Reichenbach’s critique of unified field theory, and the logical empiricists’ reactions to quantum mechanics. The third and final group of chapters widens the scope to philosophy of science and physics in general. It includes contributions on von Mises’ frequentism; Frank’s account of concept formation and confirmation; and the interrelations between Nagel’s, Feigl’s, and Hempel’s versions of logical empiricism.

This book offers a comprehensive account of the logical empiricists’ philosophy of physics. It is a valuable resource for researchers interested in the history and philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, and the history of analytic philosophy.

Table of contents:

Sebastian Lutz and Adam Tamas Tuboly: Introduction: From Philosophy of Nature to Philosophy of Physics

Jordi Cat: The Electromagnetic Way to the Scientific World-Conception: Maxwell’s Equations at the Service of Logical Empiricism

Nikolay Milkov: Kurt Grelling and the Idiosyncrasy of the Berlin Logical Empiricism

Katherine Dunlop: The Selection of Facts in Poincaré and Neurath

Don Howard: The Philosopher Physicists: Albert Einstein and Philipp Frank

Alan Richardson: On the Empirical Refutation of Epistemological Doctrine in Hans Reichenbach’s Early Philosophy

Robert Disalle: Carnap, Einstein, and the Empirical Foundations of Space-Time Geometry

Thomas Ryckman: Einstein, General Relativity, and Logical Empiricism

Marco Giovanelli: ‘Geometrization of Physics’ Vs. ‘Physicalization of Geometry’. The Untranslated Appendix to Reichenbach’s Philosophie der Raum-Zeit-Lehre

Jan Faye and Rasmus Jaksland: Did Logical Positivism Influence the Early Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics?

Richard Dawid: Why Moritz Schlick’s View on Causality Is Rooted in a Specific Understanding of Quantum Mechanics

Clark Glymour: The Legacy of Logical Empiricism

Maria Carla Galavotti: Probability Theory as a Natural Science: Richard von Mises’ Frequentism

Flavia Padovani: From Physical Possibility to Probability and Back: Reichenbach’s Account of Coordination

Sebastian Lutz: Two Constants in Carnap’s View on Scientific Theories

Matthias Neuber: From the Periphery to the Center: Nagel, Feigl, and Hempel

Adam Tamas Tuboly: Understanding Metaphysics and Understanding Through Metaphysics: Philipp Frank on Scientific Theories and Their Domestication

Routledge has published the edited volume on

Science, Freedom, Democracy
(edited by Péter Hartl and Ádám Tamás Tuboly)

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 autonomy, public control of science, the relationship between scientific pluralism and deliberative democracy, lay-expert relations in a democracy, and the threat of populism and autocracy to scientific inquiry. Taken together the essays demonstrate how democratic values and the epistemic and non-epistemic values associated with science are interconnected.

Science, Freedom, Democracy will be of interest to scholars and graduate students working in philosophy of science, history of philosophy, sociology of science, political philosophy, and epistemology.

Table of contents:

Péter Hartl and Adam Tamas Tuboly: Science, Freedom, Democracy: Introduction

Phil Mullins: Michael Polanyi's Post-Critical Vision of Science and Society

Péter Hartl: The Ethos of Science and Central Planning: Merton and Michael Polanyi on the Autonomy of Science

Heather Douglas: Scientific Freedom and Social Responsibility

Janet Kourany: Bacon’s Promise

Hans Radder: Which Science, Which Democracy, and Which Freedom?

Hugh Lacey: Participatory Democracy and Multi-Strategic Research

Dustin Olson: Public Opinion, Democratic Legitimacy, and Epistemic Compromise

Jeroen Van Bouwel: Are Transparency and Representativeness of Values Hampering Scientific Pluralism?

Lidia Godek: Max Weber’s Value-Judgment and the Problem of Science Policy-making

Three additional reviews have been published on Gábor Bíró's The Economic Thought of Michael Polanyi (Routledge, 2019). The first was published by Erwin Dekker in the 2020 December issue of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought (here), the second and the third by Geoffrey M. Hodgson and Stephen Turner in the 2021 February issue of Tradition & Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical (here és here). Gábor published response essays in both issues (here and here).

Gergely Kertész has given a talk on "Teleology, goal-directedness and self-organization: how to best revive teleology in the context of biology" in the seminar series, organised by teloi.org on the 28th of January 2021. The video of his talk is accessible here.