Yet, despite numerous connections and interactions between the two movements, their relationship has captured surprisingly sparse attention in the historical and philosophical literature. If an account is provided at all, logical empiricists and Austrian economists are portrayed as philosophically, scientifically, and politically antithetical groups. Among the most frequently mentioned contrastive pairs of catchwords are empiricism vs apriorism, formal methods vs verbal reasoning, and socialism vs classical liberalism.

This workshop aims to advance historical as well as systematic discussions on the relationship between logical empiricism and Austrian economics. Contributions that fruitfully inform contemporary debates in philosophy, methodology, politics, or the sciences are particularly welcome.

Topics for workshop II include but are not limited to:
· Karl Menger and Felix Kaufmann as mediators between LE and AE
· common influences: Frege, Husserl, Kant, Mach, Wittgenstein
· non-cognitivism, the fact/value distinction, and the ideal of value-neutrality
· the principle of tolerance and polylogism
· logical tolerance, methodological tolerance, political liberalism
· logicism and the logic of action
· naturalism vs antinaturalism, unity vs disunity of science, scientific pluralism and pseudorationality
· essentialism and its discontents (Menger, Wieser, Neurath, Popper, Rothbard,…)
· defenses of democracy in Viennese Late Enlightenment