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The Berlin Group and the Philosophy of Logical Empiricism

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Editors:
  1. Nikolay Milkov

    1. Universität Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany

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  2. Volker Peckhaus

    1. Fak. Kulturwissenschaften, Abt. Philosophie, Universität Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany

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  • First discussion of the Berlin Group in a book form in English
  • First three chapters on Dubislav in English and one on Paul Oppenheim
  • Reassesses the role of the Vienna Circle in the development of the scientific philosophy

Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 273)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introductory Chapters

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Berlin Group and the Vienna Circle: Affinities and Divergences

      • Nikolay Milkov
      Pages 3-32

    3. The Berlin Group and the USA: A Narrative of Personal Interactions

      • Nicholas Rescher
      Pages 33-39

  3. Historical–Theoretical Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
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  6. Walter Dubislav

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177
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    2. Dubislav and Classical Monadic Quantificational Logic

      • Christian Thiel
      Pages 179-189

    3. “Demonstrations”, Not “Deductions”: Walter Dubislav on Transcendental Arguments

      • Temilo van Zantwijk
      Pages 191-204

    4. Dubislav and Bolzano

      • Anita Kasabova
      Pages 205-228

  7. Kurt Grelling

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229
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    2. The Third Man: Kurt Grelling and the Berlin Group

      • Volker Peckhaus
      Pages 231-244

    3. Gestalt, Equivalency, and Functional Dependency: Kurt Grelling’s Formal Ontology

      • Arkadiusz Chrudzimski
      Pages 245-261

  8. Paul Oppenheim and Carl Hempel

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 263-263
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    2. Paul Oppenheim on Order—The Career of a Logico-Philosophical Concept

      • Paul Ziche, Thomas Müller
      Pages 265-291
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About this book

The Berlin Group for scientific philosophy was active between 1928 and 1933 and was closely related to the Vienna Circle. In 1930, the leaders of the two Groups, Hans Reichenbach and Rudolf Carnap, launched the journal Erkenntnis. However, between the Berlin Group and the Vienna Circle, there was not only close relatedness but also significant difference. Above all, while the Berlin Group explored philosophical problems of the actual practice of science, the Vienna Circle, closely following Wittgenstein, was more interested in problems of the language of science. The book includes first discussion ever (in three chapters) on Walter Dubislav’s logic and philosophy. Two chapters are devoted to another author scarcely explored in English, Kurt Grelling, and another one to Paul Oppenheim who became an important figure in the philosophy of science in the USA in the 1940s–1960s. Finally, the book discusses the precursor of the Nord-German tradition of scientific philosophy, Jacob Friedrich Fries.

Reviews

“This volume offers a very welcome in-depth look at a particular group of the philosophers associated with the Berlin Society for Empirical Philosophy (from 1931: Scientific Philosophy). … Milkov and Peckhaus have provided students of logical empiricism with a very stimulating volume from which there is much to learn … .” (Thomas Uebel, Metascience, Vol. 24, 2015)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Universität Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany

    Nikolay Milkov

  • Fak. Kulturwissenschaften, Abt. Philosophie, Universität Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany

    Volker Peckhaus

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Berlin Group and the Philosophy of Logical Empiricism

  • Editors: Nikolay Milkov, Volker Peckhaus

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5485-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5484-3Published: 06 March 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9209-8Published: 07 March 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5485-0Published: 26 February 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 332

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science

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