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This abridged and revised edition provides a comprehensive history and documentation of the Vienna Circle, utilizing new sources and an innovative historiographical approach to the study of science. It challenges prevalent clichés about "neo-positivism" and "logical positivism" by referencing unpublished archival material and recent literature. The text explores the relationship between the history and philosophy of science, offering an accessible introduction to the rise of scientific philosophy within its socio-cultural context and European philosophical networks until the forced migration to the Anglo-Saxon world. The first part delves into the origins of Logical Empiricism before World War I, detailing the development of the Vienna Circle in “Red Vienna” and its experiences during Austro-Fascism, including Schlick's murder in 1936, and the subsequent expulsion by National-Socialism starting with the Anschluss in 1938. It analyzes the dynamics of the Schlick-Circle within the "late enlightenment" intellectual context, featuring the first-time publication of meeting minutes from 1930 and an extensive overview of meetings and Unity of Science conferences from 1929 to 1941. Key philosophers of the Schlick Circle are introduced, along with their interactions and communications with figures like Wittgenstein and Popper. The final chapter of this section discusses the demise of the Vienna Circle and the forced exodus of its mem

This work is for scholars, researchers and students in history and philosophy of science focusing on Logical Empiricism and analytic philosophy (of science). It provides historical and systematic research and deals with the influence and impact of the Vienna Circle/Logical Empiricism on today's philosophy of science. It also explores the intellectual context of this scientific philosophy and focuses on main figures and peripheral adherents.

Time and History presents the invited papers of the 28th International Wittgenstein Symposium 2005 in Kirchberg/W. (Austria). Renowned scientists and scholars address the issue of time from a variety of disciplinary and cross-disciplinary perspectives in four sections: philosophy of time, time in the physical sciences, time in the social and cultural sciences, temporal logic, time in history/history of time, and Wittgenstein on time. Questions discussed include general relativity and cosmology, the physical basis of the arrow of time, the linguistics of temporal expressions, temporal logic, time in the social sciences, time in culture and the arts. Outside the natural sciences, time typically appears as history and in historiography in different forms, like a history of our conceptions of time. The first chapter of the book is dedicated to the major positions in contemporary philosophy of time. Is there a real sense of past, present, and future, or is time just a special coordinate among others? What does it mean that identity persists over time? The importance of Wittgenstein for present-day philosophy notwithstanding, his ideas about time have hitherto received only little attention. The final chapter, for the first time, provides an extensive discussion of his respective views.

Feyerabend, der im Jahr 2004 achzig Jahre alt geworden wäre, genießt den trendigen Geniekult mit dem postmodernen Image eines anarchistischen Zerstörers aller rationalistischen Philosophie und analytischen Wissenschaftstheorie („anything goes“). Der Band wagt in kritischer Beleuchtung einen neuen Blick auf seine einflussreichen Publikationen sowie seine autobiografischen Schriften.

Dieser Band fasst ein hochrangig und international besetztes Symposium zusammen, welches unter großem öffentlichen Interesse im Juni 2003 an der Universität Wien stattfand. Es wurde auf Initiative des aus Wien stammenden Neurobiologen Eric Kandel veranstaltet – anstatt von geplanten Ehrungen anlässlich seiner Auszeichnung mit dem Nobelpreis für Medizin im Jahre 2000. Das Ziel war, der breiteren Öffentlichkeit und Scientific Communitiy den Umgang Österreichs mit der nationalsozialistischen Herrschaft und dessen Auswirkungen auf das intellektuelle Leben in Österreich bis zur Gegenwart zu thematisieren. Die persönliche Teilnahme der zwei aus Österreich vertriebenen Wissenschafter und späteren Nobelpreisträger Eric Kandel und Walter Kohn, sowie einer Reihe weiterer renommierter ForscherInnen und ZeitzeugenInnen war Anlass für diese einmalige und einzigartige zeitgeschichtliche Dokumentation.