Entrance to the Mathematical Seminar at the University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5. Meeting place of the Vienna Circle.
The Vienna Circle (German: Wiener Kreis) of logical empiricism was a group of elite philosophers and scientists drawn from the natural and social sciences, logic and mathematics who met regularly from 1924 to 1936 at the University of Vienna, chaired by Moritz Schlick. The Vienna Circle had a profound influence on 20th-century philosophy, especially philosophy of science and analytic philosophy.
The philosophical position of the Vienna Circle was called logical empiricism (German: logischer Empirismus), logical positivism or neopositivism. It was influenced by Ernst Mach, David Hilbert, French conventionalism (Henri Poincaré and Pierre Duhem), Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Albert Einstein. The Vienna Circle was pluralistic and committed to the ideals of the Enlightenment. It was unified by the aim of making philosophy scientific with the help of modern logic. Main topics were foundational debates in the natural and social sciences, logic and mathematics; the modernization of empiricism by modern logic; the search for an empiricist criterion of meaning; the critique of metaphysics and the unification of the sciences in the unity of science.[1]
The Vienna Circle appeared in public with the publication of various book series – Schriften zur wissenschaftlichen Weltauffassung (Monographs on the Scientific World-Conception), Einheitswissenschaft (Unified Science) and the journal Erkenntnis – and the organization of international conferences in Prague; Königsberg (today known as Kaliningrad); Paris; Copenhagen; Cambridge, UK, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its public profile was provided by the Ernst Mach Society (German: Verein Ernst Mach) through which members of the Vienna Circle sought to popularize their ideas in the context of programmes for popular education in Vienna.
During the era of Austrofascism and after the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany most members of the Vienna Circle were forced to emigrate. The murder of Schlick in 1936 by former student Johann Nelböck put an end to the Vienna Circle in Austria.
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held in Prague in 1929. The Berlin Circle had much in common with the ViennaCircle, but the philosophies of the circles differed on a few subjects, such...
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group, helped bring Moritz Schlick to Vienna. Schlick's ViennaCircle, along with Hans Reichenbach's Berlin Circle, propagated the new doctrines more widely...
to 1940s, a group of philosophers known as the ViennaCircle, and another one known as the Berlin Circle, developed Russell and Wittgenstein's philosophy...
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philosopher, physicist, and the founding father of logical positivism and the ViennaCircle. Schlick was born in Berlin to a wealthy Prussian family with deep nationalist...
Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, the ViennaCircle, and the Frankfurt School, who now count among the most famous and studied...
launched by the logical positivists who, emerging from the Berlin Circle and the ViennaCircle in the 1920s, sought an epistemology whereby philosophical discourse...
members of the Frankfurt School and members of the ViennaCircle underestimated each other. The Vienna School, rather than deemphasizing subjectivity and...
this movement were Otto Neurath, Moritz Schlick and the rest of the ViennaCircle, along with A. J. Ayer, Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach. The neopositivists...
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followed by Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus), the ViennaCircle, logical positivists, and Willard Van Orman Quine. In the West, inquiry...
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of the ViennaCircle) Paul Feyerabend (1924–1994), philosopher Philipp Frank (1884–1966), philosopher and physicist (member of the ViennaCircle) Edmund...
philosophical side of this issue, Popper said that some philosophers of the ViennaCircle had mixed two different problems, that of meaning and that of demarcation...
philosophy and convert it to a new scientific philosophy, the Berlin Circle and the ViennaCircle propounded logical positivism in the late 1920s. Interpreting...
perhaps not sufficiently "economical". Mach had a direct influence on the ViennaCircle philosophers and logical positivism in general. Several principles are...
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