Early neoliberal philosophers aligned with the right wing of logical empiricism

Evidence

Despite his close acquaintance with Neurath, with whom he organized in 1935 the First International Congress of Scientific Philosophy in Paris, Rougier’s philosophy and politics were closer to the “right wing” of the Vienna Circle (Moritz Schlick, Friedrich Waismann, Felix Kaufmann) than to the left one. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 63

Categorization

• XREF: Fractures the assumption that logical positivism was inherently left-leaning; connects to the broader revisionist argument that Vienna Circle politics were mixed. — connects to: Neoliberalism’s leading thinkers were Austrian refugee philosophers of science — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 57; Logical positivism began as an egalitarian political and social program — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 59; Neoliberal epistemology drew on Poincaré’s conventionalism to attack socialist rationalism — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 62 (+1 more)
• SEED: Seed: an essay on the political bifurcation of the Vienna Circle — how the same epistemological program split into left (Neurath) and right (Schlick) wings with divergent economic politics.