This book studies how the relationship between philosophy, morality, politics, and science was conceived in the Vienna Circle and how this group of philosophers tried to position science as an antidote to totalitarianism and irrationalism.  This leads to investigation of the still understudied views of the Vienna Circle on moral philosophy, meta-ethics, and the relationship between philosophy of science and politics.  Including papers from an international group of scholars,The Socio-ethical Dimension of Knowledge: The Mission of Logical Empiricism addresses these topics and makes them available to scholars in the field of history of philosophy of science.

Adam Tamas Tuboly is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Research Center for the Humanities and research fellow at the Institute of Transdisciplinary Discoveries, Medical School, University of Pécs. He works on the history of logical empiricism and writes now a biographical volume on Otto Neurath and one on Philipp Frank.

Christian Damböck is a postdoc researcher at the Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna. He is recently working on an edition of the diaries of Rudolf Carnap.

Part 1 : The Socio-Ethical Dimension of Knowledge - The Mission of Logical Empiricism.- Chapter 1. Introduction (Tuboly).- Chapter 2. Ethics and Morality in the Vienna Circle (Siegetsleitner).- Chapter 3. The Social Virtue of Science. Motivating Structural Objectivity in Logical Empiricism (Richardson).- Chapter 4. Philosophy (andWissenschaft) Without Politics? Schlick on Nietzsche, German Idealism, and Militarism (Vrahimis).- Chapter 5. Schlick on the Meaning of Good (Ambrus).- Chapter 6. Making Logical Positivism Less Logical: The Case of Schlick and von Mises (Tuboly).- Chapter 7. Leo Apostel and Rudolf Carnap: The Development of Logical Empiricist Ethics in Post-War Europe (Dewulf).- Chapter 8. The Cult of Genius and its Critics: Edgar Zilsel and Otto Neurath (Sandner).- Chapter 9. Philipp Franks Relativism: Presentation, Appreciation, and Critique (Stamenkovic).- Chapter 10. Alternative Facts, Fake News, Pseudo-Science: New Challenges for a Scientific World-view. AnEssay (Dahms).- Part II: General Part.- Chapter 11. Viennese Lessons: Wittgenstein, Carnap and Schlick (Soames).- Part III: Review Essays.- Chapter 12. George Reisch, The Politics of Paradigms. Thomas S. Kuhn, James Conant and the Cold War Struggle for Mens Minds. Albany: State University of New York Press 2019 (Dahms).- Chapter 13. Amrei C. Joerchel, Gerhard Benetka (Eds.), Memories of Gustav Ichheiser. Life and Work of a Social Scientist (Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences Bd.1). Cham: Springer 2018 (Maria Czwik and Bastian Stoppelkamp).