Andrew Robinson reviews Exact Thinking in Demented Times: the Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science by Karl Sigmund Philosophers in exile: Albert Einstein in 1954 with Kurt ...

Preface / by Douglas Hofstadter -- Bringing the Vienna Circle into focus -- A tale of two thinkers -- A trial run for the Vienna Circle -- The circle starts rolling -- The turn of the circle -- The ...

Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundation of Science. By Karl Sigmund. Basic Books; 449 pages; $32 and £25. ON OCTOBER 21st 1916 Friedrich Adler, a ...

Philosophy often flourishes in the aftermath of wars, especially lost wars. Socrates served in the losing Athenian army in the Peloponnesian War; Thomas Hobbes wrote “Leviathan” while in exile in ...

EXACT THINKING IN DEMENTED TIMES: THE VIENNA CIRCLE AND THE EPIC QUEST FOR THE FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE By Karl Sigmund Basic Books, $32, 449 pages Much of intellectual life seems to operate within — ...

On Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science, by Karl Sigmund. The Vienna Circle, like the Bloomsbury Group, came in for a lot of criticism, ...

Thomas E. Uebel has recently claimed that, contrary to popular opinion, none of the philosophers of the Vienna Circle of Logical Positivists were proponents of epistemological foundationalism.