The Berlin Group and the Philosophy of Logical Empiricism
Editors: Milkov, Nikolay, Peckhaus, Volker (Eds.)
- 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
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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.
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“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)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Berlin Group and the Philosophy of Logical Empiricism
- Editors
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- Nikolay Milkov
- Volker Peckhaus
- Series Title
- Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
- Series Volume
- 273
- Copyright
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-007-5485-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-007-5485-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-5484-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-9209-8
- Series ISSN
- 0068-0346
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 332
- Number of Illustrations and Tables
- 2 b/w illustrations
- Topics
