Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 1 An Introduction to Logical Empiricism and the Unity of Science Movement in the Cold War
- 2 Otto Neurath, Charles Morris, Rudolf Carnap, and Philipp Frank: Political Philosophers of Science
- 3 Leftist Philosophy of Science in America and the Reception of Logical Empiricism in New York City
- 4 “Doomed in Advance to Defeat”? John Dewey on Reductionism, Values, and the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science
- 5 Red Philosophy of Science: Blumberg, Malisoff, Somerville, and Early Philosophy of Science
- 6 The View from the Left: Logical Empiricism and Radical Philosophers
- 7 The View from the Far Left: Logical Empiricism and Communist Philosophers
- 8 Postwar Disillusionment, Anti-Intellectualism, and the Values Debate
- 9 Horace Kallen's Attack on the Unity of Science
- 10 Creeping Totalitarianism, Creeping Scholasticism: Neurath, Frank, and the Trouble with Semantics
- 11 Frank's Neurathian Crusade: Science, Enlightenment, and Values
- 12 “A Very Fertile Field for Investigation”: Anticollectivism and Anticommunism in Popular and Academic Culture
- 13 Anticommunist Investigations, Loyalty Oaths, and the Wrath of Sidney Hook
- 14 Competing Programs for Postwar Philosophy of Science
- 15 Freedom Celebrated: The Professional Decline of Philipp Frank and the Unity of Science Movement
- 16 The Marginalization of Charles Morris
- 17 Values, Axioms, and the Icy Slopes of Logic
- 18 Professionalism, Power, and What Might Have Been
- References
- Index
13 - Anticommunist Investigations, Loyalty Oaths, and the Wrath of Sidney Hook
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 1 An Introduction to Logical Empiricism and the Unity of Science Movement in the Cold War
- 2 Otto Neurath, Charles Morris, Rudolf Carnap, and Philipp Frank: Political Philosophers of Science
- 3 Leftist Philosophy of Science in America and the Reception of Logical Empiricism in New York City
- 4 “Doomed in Advance to Defeat”? John Dewey on Reductionism, Values, and the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science
- 5 Red Philosophy of Science: Blumberg, Malisoff, Somerville, and Early Philosophy of Science
- 6 The View from the Left: Logical Empiricism and Radical Philosophers
- 7 The View from the Far Left: Logical Empiricism and Communist Philosophers
- 8 Postwar Disillusionment, Anti-Intellectualism, and the Values Debate
- 9 Horace Kallen's Attack on the Unity of Science
- 10 Creeping Totalitarianism, Creeping Scholasticism: Neurath, Frank, and the Trouble with Semantics
- 11 Frank's Neurathian Crusade: Science, Enlightenment, and Values
- 12 “A Very Fertile Field for Investigation”: Anticollectivism and Anticommunism in Popular and Academic Culture
- 13 Anticommunist Investigations, Loyalty Oaths, and the Wrath of Sidney Hook
- 14 Competing Programs for Postwar Philosophy of Science
- 15 Freedom Celebrated: The Professional Decline of Philipp Frank and the Unity of Science Movement
- 16 The Marginalization of Charles Morris
- 17 Values, Axioms, and the Icy Slopes of Logic
- 18 Professionalism, Power, and What Might Have Been
- References
- Index
Summary
Education was indeed, as Velde put it, “a very fertile field” for anticommunist investigations in the 1950s, if only because so many academics, if they had not actually joined the party, had been sympathetic to communism in the 1930s. Because the University of Chicago and Harvard are private institutions, Charles Morris, Rudolf Carnap, and Philipp Frank were sheltered from some of the anticommunist pressures applied to their colleagues at public institutions. Still, all three experienced various kinds of anticommunist pressures in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Hearings at the University of Chicago
Morris witnessed two investigations at the University of Chicago, the first in 1935 before Carnap had arrived at the university. That investigation was precipitated by radical students who had distributed revolutionary literature to the city's poor. At the same time, the university's May Day celebration of 1934 drew the press's attention to “the enormous gap that had opened between [the] University's students and the climate of opinion prevailing in the city” (McNeill 1991, 62–63). The university's reputation as a hotbed of radicalism was also fed by the early anticommunist book The Red Network (Dilling 1934). The issue ignited when Charles Walgreen, of drugstore fame, wrote to President Hutchins that he was withdrawing his niece from the college: “I am unwilling to have her absorb the Communist influences to which she is assiduously exposed” (in McNeill 1991, 63).
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- How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of ScienceTo the Icy Slopes of Logic, pp. 259 - 282Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005