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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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Wittgenstein, Ramsey and the Vienna Circle
This paper will explore the engagement of Wittgenstein, Ramsey and the Vienna Circle (mostly Schlick and Carnap) in the 1920s. This is before...
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The “Diktat für Schlick”: Authorship Research and Computational Stylometry Revisited
Both the authorship and the dating of the so-called “Diktat für Schlick” (DFS), once attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein and assigned by Georg Henrik...
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Schlick, Weyl, Husserl: On Scientific Philosophy
I develop and comment on the controversy between Schlick, Husserl and his follower Weyl, concerning the ideal of a scientific philosophy. The main...
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After the Tractatus: Schlick and Wittgenstein on Ethics
Schlick’s relationship with the Tractatus has been mainly investigated in what concerns the conception both of language and world, the insight of...
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Viennese Lessons: Wittgenstein, Carnap, and Schlick
The logical empiricism of the Vienna Circle was the second great step in the development of analytic philosophy, following the turn to logic and...
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Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle 100 Years After the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
This book offers a critical update of current Wittgenstein research on the Tractatus logico-philosophicus (TLP) and its relation to the Vienna...
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The Vienna Circle and Religion
This book is the first systematic and historical account of the Vienna Circle that deals with the relation of logical empiricists with religion as...
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Diktate – Friedrich Waismann und Moritz Schlick
Das von Georg Henrik von Wright erstellte Inventarverzeichnis zum Nachlass von W. führt am Ende eine Reihe von ›Diktaten‹ auf, darunter sieben...
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Naturalism and the Vienna Circle
Despite the growth of interest in the project in the late 1980s and early 1990s, naturalized epistemology has existed for a lot longer. Its origins...
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Leibniz and the Vienna Circle
As recent scholarship has repeatedly shown, the history of Vienna Circle is to some extent rooted in the tradition of Austrian Philosophy which...
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Schlick on the Meaning of “Good”
The paper discusses Schlick’s Problems of Ethics (1939; Fragen der Ethik, 1930). It comprises of two parts. The first part analyses Schlick’s...
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Philosophy (and Wissenschaft) Without Politics? Schlick on Nietzsche, German Idealism, and Militarism
With the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, there emerged two controversies related to the responsibility of philosophical ideas for the rise...
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The First Vienna Circle: What Kind of Formation Was It—And Why Does It Matter?
This paper focuses on the so-called Frank-Haller thesis that there existed a first Vienna Circle before World War One, influential for the later...
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Making Logical Positivism Less Logical: The Case of Schlick and von Mises
In this paper, I argue for the following three theses: (1) Schlick never overcame the problems of “traditional philosophy” and thus tried to find a...
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The Vienna Circle in China: The Story of Tscha Hung
Tscha Hung was a member of the Vienna Circle who achieved high international academic recognition. He dedicated his entire life to spreading the...
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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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Ethics and Morality in the Vienna Circle
The paper provides an introduction to the main topics and issues of morality in logical empiricism. One of the main goals is to disprove the received...