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Philosophy : Modern Philosophy

Stadler, Friedrich The Vienna Circle Studies in the Origins, Development, and Influence of Logical Empiricism

Presents an exemplary study of the rise of scientific thought and its vicissitudes in this century Contains the protocols of the Schlick Circle and an interview with Karl Popper Is the only available comprehensive history of the Vienna Circle in context in English This abridged and revised edition of the original book (Springer-Wien-New York: 2001) offers the only comprehensive history and documentation of the Vienna Circle based on new sources with an innovative historiographical approach to the study of science. With reference to previously unpublished archival material and more recent literature, it refutes a number of widespread clichés about "neo-positivism" or "logical positivism". Following some insights on the relation between the history of science and the philosophy of science, the book offers an Springer accessible introduction to the complex subject of "the rise of scientific philosophy” in its socio- 2015, XXXI, 681 p. 125 illus. cultural background and European philosophical networks till the forced migration in the Anglo- 1st Saxon world. The first part of the book focuses on the origins of Logical Empiricism before edition World War I and the development of the Vienna Circle in "Red Vienna" (with the "Verein Ernst Mach"), its fate during Austro-Fascism (Schlick's murder 1936) and its final expulsion by National-Socialism beginning with the "Anschluß" in 1938. It analyses the dynamics of the Printed book Schlick-Circle in the intellectual context of "late enlightenment" including the minutes of the Hardcover meetings from 1930 on for the first time published and presents an extensive description of Printed book the meetings and international Unity of Science conferences between 1929 and 1941. The chapters introduce the leading philosophers of the Schlick Circle (e.g., Hans Hahn, Otto Hardcover Neurath, Rudolf Carnap, Philipp Frank, Felix Kaufmann, Edgar Zilsel) and describe the ISBN 978-3-319-16560-8 conflicting interaction between Moritz Schlick and Otto Neurath, the long term communication £ 139,99 | CHF 189,00 | 159,99 € | between Moritz Schlick, Friedrich Waismann and Ludwig Wittgenstein, as well as between the 175,99 € (A) | 171,19 € (D) Vienna Circle with Heinrich Gomperz and Karl Popper. In addition, Karl Menger's "Mathematical Available Colloquium" with Kurt Gödel is presented as a parallel movement. Discount group Science (SC) Order online at springer.com/booksellers Product category Springer Nature Customer Service Center GmbH Monograph Customer Service Series Tiergartenstrasse 15-17 Vienna Circle Institute Library 69121 Heidelberg Germany Other renditions T: +49 (0)6221 345-4301 Softcover [email protected] ISBN 978-3-319-36866-5 Softcover ISBN 978-3-319-16562-2

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