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At #philosophy talk on value free ideal, was said: “one could be a full on logical positivist like Bertrand Russell and still protest the bomb”. BR not a positivist, Neurath has 1st use of inductive risk argument, and Hempel wrote early critiques of the value free ideal!! 
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THANK YOU! (note: in Inquiry into Meaning & Truth, Russell says: "As will be evident to the reader, I am, as regards method, more in sympathy with Logical Positivism than any other existing school" (1940, p.7). So the speaker was wrong, but maybe not 1000% pants on fire)
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Which Hempel? I should know this clearly...
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It’s an essay in Aspects of Scientific Explanation, I believe it’s called Science and Human Values. He goes through a few ways science might relate to normative claims and ends up endorsing inductive risk; it’s after Rudner, but I actually find Hempel’s discussion clearer.
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Wait are logical positivists supposed to be pro-bomb or anti-protest?
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Ha! It was taken to be surprising that they’d have any kinda political opinion I think.
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