LOGICAL POSITIVISM / EMPIRICISM
(VIENNA CIRCLE)
(c. 1920 - c. 1940)

SUB-PAGES

Philosophers:

• Vienna Circle:

  • Hans Hahn (1879 - 1934)

  • Moritz Schlick (1882 - 1936)

  • Otto Neurath (1882 - 1945)

  • Philipp Frank (1884 - 1966)

  • Rudolf Carnap (1891 - 1970)

  • Gustav Bergmann (1906 - 1987)

• Gesellschaft fur empirische Philosophie (Berlin Society for Scientific Philosophy):

  • Hans Reichenbach (1891 - 1953)

  • Carl Gustav Hempel (1905 - 1997)

• Karl Popper (1902 - 1994)

• Alfred J. Ayer (1910 - 1989)

CONFERENCES

• Phillip Frank: Vienna - Prague - Boston - Vienna:

  • Erwin Schrödinger Institut, Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft, Vienna, September 27 - 28, 2005

  • Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Research Center for the History of Sciences and Humanities, Prague, September 30-October 1, 2005

JOURNALS

• Erkenntnis (first series, 1930 - 1938; new series, Vol. 9, 1975 - present)

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Ayer, Alfred J., ed.  Logical Positivism.  Glencoe, NY: Free Press, 1959.

  • Fischer, K. R., ed.  The Golden Age of Austrian Philosophy: a Sourcebook.  Vienna: WUV Verlag, 1995.

  • Sarkar, S., ed.  Science and Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Basic Works of Logical Empiricism.  New York: Garland, 1996.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Hahn, Hans, Rudolph Carnap, and Otto Neurath.  "The Scientific Conception of the World: the Vienna Circle."  Rpt. in Neurath, Otto.  Empiricism and Sociology.  Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1973.  299-318.  Also Rpt. in Analytic Philosophy.  Ed. Jordan J. Lindberg.  Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, 2000. 147-158.  [1929]

On-Line:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies

  • Achinstein, P., and S. Barker, eds.  The Legacy of Logical Positivism.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1969.

  • Fleming, D., and B. Bailyn, eds.  The Intellectual Migration: Europe and America, 1930-1960.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1969.

  • Giere, R. N., and A. W. Richardson, eds.  Origins of Logical Empiricism.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1996.

  • Haller, R., ed.  Neo-Positivism: a Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of the Vienna Circle.  Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1993.

  • McGuinness, B., and F. Waismann, eds.  Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1979. 

  • Stadler, Friedrich, ed.  Scientific Philosophy: Origins an Developments.  Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1993.

  • Uebel, Thomas E., ed.  Rediscovering the Forgotten Vienna Circle.  Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1991.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Bergmann, Gustav.  The Metaphysics of Logical Positivism.  London: Longman, 1954.

  • Blumberg, Albert, and Herbert Feigl.  "Logical Positivism: a New Movement in European Philosophy."  Journal of Philosophy 28.11 (1931): 281-296.

  • Frank, P.  Modern Science and its Philosophy.  Cambridge: CUP, 1949.

  • Friedman, M.  Reconsidering Logical Positivism.  Cambridge: CUP, 1999.

  • Friedman, M.  "The Re-Evaluation of Logical Positivism."  Journal of Philosophy 10 (1991): .

  • Giere, M.  The Vienna Circle with Self-Descriptions and Photographs.  Reinbeck bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1992.

  • Hempel, Carl Gustav.  "The Vienna Circle and the Metamorphoses of its Empiricism."  Selected Philosophical Essays.  Ed. Richard Jeffrey.  Cambridge: CUP, 2000.  268-287.

  • Hempel, Carl Gustav.  "Empiricism in the Vienna Circle and in the Berlin Society for Scientific Philosophy."  Selected Philosophical Essays.  Ed. Richard Jeffrey.  Cambridge: CUP, 2000.  295-304.  [1993]

  • Joad, C. E. M.  A Critique of Logical Positivism.  London: Gallancz, 1950.

  • Jorgensen, J.  The Development of Logical Empiricism.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1951.

  • Kraft, Victor.  The Vienna Circle: the Origin of Neo-Positivism: a Chapter in the History of Recent Philosophy.  Trans. Arthur Pap.  New York: Philosophical Library, 1953.

  • von Mises, R.  Positivism: a Study in Human Understanding.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1951.

  • Nagel, Ernst.  "Impressions and Appraisals of Analytic Philosophy in Europe."  Journal of Philosophy 33 (1936): .

  • von Rintelen, Fritz Joachim.  "Neo-Positivism and its Relation to Natural Sciences."  Contemporary German Philosophy and its Background.  Bonn: Bouvier, 1970.  29-35.

  • Uebel, Thomas E.  "Otto Neurath, the Vienna Circle and the Austrian Tradition."  German Philosophy since Kant.  Ed. Anthony O'Hear.  Cambridge: CUP, 1999.  249-269.

  • Weinberg, J. R.  An Examination of Logical Positivism.  London: Kegan Paul 1936.

On-Line:

• Feigl, H.: Positivism in the Twentieth Century (Logical Empiricism) (Dictionary of the History of Ideas)

• Murzi, Mauro:

  • Logical Positivism (New Encyclopedia of Unbelief)

  • Vienna Circle (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• Uebel, Thomas: Vienna Circle (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia:

  • Logical Empiricism / Positivism

  • Vienna Circle

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