Rather than a monolithic movement of naïve empiricists, the Vienna Circle represented a
discussion forum for what were sometimes compatible, sometimes conflicting philosophical …

On 15 October 1929, Rudolf Carnap, a leading member of the recently founded Vienna
Circle, came to lecture at the Bauhaus in Dessau, southwest of Berlin. Carnap had just …

This book presents a clear and critical view of the orthodox logical empiricist tradition,
pointing the way to significant developments for the understanding of science both as …

Stanford University 1 here is something of a mystery about the death of the Czar and his
family at the time of the Russian Revolution. The" received ac count" is that all of them died …

Wittgenstein, possibly the most influential philosopher of the twentieth century, is often
labelled a Neopositivist, a New-Kantian, even a Sceptic. Questions on Wittgenstein, first …

When the philosophy of science as we know it today was first established, chiefly in German-
speaking Europe in the 1920s and 1930s, many, if not most of its founders were motivated in …

Many influences combined to shape what came to be known, in its Vienna form, as logical
empiricism, or, in its Berlin form, as scientific philosophy: the empiricism of Mill, Mach, and …

Pierre Duhem's often unrecognized influence on twentieth-century philosophy of science is
illustrated by an analysis of his significant if also largely unrecognized influence on Albert …

Questions of Form was first published in 1989. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital
technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published …

Die These, die ich zur Überprüfung vorlege, ist die folgende: Es gab vor der Gründung des
sogenannten Wiener Kreises um Moritz Schlick einen ersten Wiener Kreis mit Hans Hahn …