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Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle – The Vienna Circle and Wittgenstein. A Critical Reconsideration
Research and publications on Wittgenstein and on the Vienna Circle of Logical Empiricism have been steadily increasing in recent decades....
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A Rabbi Among the Apostates? Josef Schächter and Religion in the Vienna Circle
Josef Schächter (1901–1994) was the single member of the Vienna Circle who consistently sought to reconcile the scientific worldview with religion....
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Money and Philosophy in Vienna: Otto Neurath and Ludwig Wittgenstein
I identify and discuss cross-disciplinary, intellectual, social, and personal connections as they relate to the philosophical contributions of two...
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Student Life. Moving to Vienna
We describe in this chapter the intellectual and academic environment in which he found himself, and his student years, 1924-29. He began his studies...
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Popper’s Early Life in Vienna
Karl Raimund Popper was born on July 28, 1902, at Himmelhof in Ober Saint Veit on the Western outskirts of Vienna, the capital of...
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“Philosophysics” at the University of Vienna: The (Pre-)History of Foundations of Quantum Physics in the Viennese Cultural Context
Vienna today is one of the capitals of research on foundations of quantum physics. We reconstruct the development of modern physics in Vienna, with a...
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1936–1940: The Medical Society for Psychotherapy and the Göring Institute (Berlin/Vienna)
This chapter presents new historical research findings on Viktor Frankl’s scientific and political affiliations shortly before and after the Nazis...
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The Mathematician in Vienna. The Incompleteness Theorems
ByGödel, Kurt–incompleteness theorems(ff) mid-OctoberIncompleteness, Gödel’s theorems(ff) of 1929, Gödel had done all that he could to finish his...
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Review: Günther Sandner, Weltsprache ohne Worte. Rudolf Modley, Margaret Mead und das Glyphs-Projekt, Turia + Kant 2022; Christopher Burke, Wim Jansen, Soft propaganda, special relationships, and a new democracy, Adprint and Isotype 1942–1948. Uitgeverij de Buitenkant 2022
Two new publications deal with the visual communication of knowledge and the possibility of universally understandable symbolic languages as...
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Review: Ilse Korotin, Amalia M. Rosenblüth-Dengler (1892-1979). Philosophin und Bibliothekarin. Biografische Spuren eines Frauenlebens zwischen Aufbruch und Resignation, Praesens Verlag 2021
The life of the philosopher and librarian Amalia Rosenblüth (1892–1979), who was in touch with the Lemberg-Warsaw-School (Lemberg-Warschauer-Schule)...
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Events at the Vienna Academy of Sciences
The Vienna Academy of Sciences was an important institution for Austrian scientists. While Haas was primarily in charge of the organization and...
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Vienna Exodus
This chapter describes the rapid exodus of Jewish scientists from Austria and Haas’ attempt to provide them with visas and temporary as well as...
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Economics in Berlin, Vienna and Other Minor German Centers
This chapter deals with economics in Germany and Austria, in particular in the centers of Berlin and Vienna. Firstly, the chapter examines economics...
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Chronostasis: Critique of Managed Existence in The Time Regulation Institute
This chapter offers a close reading of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s 1954 novel The Time Regulation Institute as an inherently modernist text. It provides a...
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The Circumstances of Edgar Zilsel’s Failed Habilitation. A Case-Study on the Instigations of Anti-Semitic and Conservative Academic Networks in the 1920s at the University of Vienna
Edgar Zilsel’s habilitation attempt in 1923/24 has been researched for the last four decades. Most reconstructions attributed its failure mainly to...
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Ernest Nagel: A Biography
This paper provides a summary and overview of Ernest Nagel’s life, based on his archive correspondence with members of the Vienna Circle and other...
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Review:A. W. Carus, Michael Friedman, Wolfgang Kienzler, Alan Richardson, and Sven Schlotter (Eds.), Rudolf Carnap: Early Writings. The Collected Works of Rudolf Carnap, Volume 1. Oxford University Press 2019, 528 pp., ISBN: 9780198748403
This first volume of The Collected Works of Rudolf Carnap includes Carnap’s published writings from 1921 when he submitted his dissertation Der Raum...
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Major Contacts with Stimulating Initiatives of Analytical Philosophy and the Vienna Circle
In this country philosophy had been cultivated for a long time as an explication and very rarely as a process of fructification of the ideas that had...
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From the Problem of Genius to the Integration of Philosophy, History, and Sociology of Science: Edgar Zilsel’s Life and Work Viewed in the Context of Recent Historiography and Research
Edgar Zilsel (1891–1944) was a typical outsider for several reasons – as a Jew, socialist, and scholar outside the university aiming at an integrated...