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.