Overview
- 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
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Vienna Circle Institute Library (VCIL, volume 4)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism Between the Wars—Emergence and Banishment
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The Vienna Circle—The Biographical and Bibliographical Dimension
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About this book
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 With reference to previously unpublished archival material and more recent literature, it refutes a number of widespread clichés about "neo-positivism" or "logical positivism".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 accessible introduction to the complex subject of "the rise of scientific philosophy” in its socio-cultural background and European philosophical networks till the forced migration in the Anglo-Saxon world.
The first part of the book focuses on the origins of Logical Empiricism before 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 Schlick-Circle in the intellectual context of "late enlightenment" including the minutes of the meetings from 1930 on for the first time published and presents an extensive description of 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 Neurath, Rudolf Carnap, Philipp Frank, Felix Kaufmann, Edgar Zilsel) and describe the conflicting interaction between Moritz Schlick and Otto Neurath, the long term communication between Moritz Schlick, Friedrich Waismann and Ludwig Wittgenstein, as well as between the Vienna Circle with Heinrich Gomperz and Karl Popper. In addition, Karl Menger's "Mathematical Colloquium" with Kurt Gödel is presented as a parallel movement. The final chapter of this section describes the demise of the Vienna Circle andthe forced exodus of scientists and intellectuals from Austria. The second part of the book includes a bio-bibliographical documentation of the Vienna Circle members and for the first time of the assassination of Moritz Schlick in 1936, followed by an appendix comprising an extensive list of sources and literature.
Reviews
“Stadler’s book is exactly what it promises: a sort-of-a-handbook of LE providing incredible amount of material about its philosophical, social and cultural origins, its periodic development, and its known and hitherto unknown influence. … Stadler’s The Vienna Circle is an especially important document. … Thus Stadler’s book is a must have.” (Ádám Tamás Tuboly, Philosophy in Review, Vol. 36 (1), February, 2016)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Vienna Circle
Book Subtitle: Studies in the Origins, Development, and Influence of Logical Empiricism
Authors: Friedrich Stadler
Series Title: Vienna Circle Institute Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16561-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-16560-8Published: 21 May 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36866-5Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-16561-5Published: 08 May 2015
Series ISSN: 1571-3083
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 681
Number of Illustrations: 125 b/w illustrations
Topics: Modern Philosophy, History of Science, History of Philosophy