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Title
The Vienna Circle in Czechoslovakia / Radek Schuster, editor.
ISBN
9783030363833
303036383X
3030363821
9783030363826
Publication Details
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2020]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (211 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-36
Call Number
B824.6
Dewey Decimal Classification
146.42
Summary
This book explores the remarkable interconnections of the Czechoslovak environment and the work and legacy of the Vienna Circle on the philosophical, scientific and artistic level. The Czech lands and later Czechoslovakia were the living and working space for the predecessors and catalysts for Logical Empiricism, such as Bernard Bolzano, Ernst Mach and Albert Einstein, along with key figures in the Vienna Circle such as Philipp Frank and Rudolf Carnap. Moreover, Prague hosted important academic events in which Logical Empiricism was presented to the public, such as the September 1929 1st Conference on the Epistemology of the Exact Sciences, which launched the key manifesto, The Vienna Circle. The Scientific Conception of the World. In addition, this book investigates both the positive and negative receptions of Logical Empiricism within Czech and Slovak intellectual circles. The volume features a selection of contributions to the international conference, The Vienna Circle in Czechoslovakia, held in Pilsen, Czech Republic, in February 2015. These essays are supplemented by two texts of vivid personal memoirs by Nina Holton and Ladislav Tondl. The book is of interest to scholars and researchers interested in the history of philosophy and science in central Europe and the philosophy of science and the Logical Empiricism of the Vienna Circle.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series
Vienna Circle Institute yearbook ; 23.
Chapter 1. How Philosophers in the Czech Lands Broke Ground for the Vienna Circle
Chapter 2. Why Czech Positivism Could Not Be Absorbed By Logical Positivism
Chapter 3. Philipp Frank's Civic and Intellectual Life in Prague: Investments in Loyalty
Chapter 4. Scientific World Conception on Stage: The Prague Meeting of the German Physicists and Mathematicians
Chapter 5. Rudolf Carnap's Inferentialism
Chapter 6. Minimum Dwellings: Otto Neurath and Karel Teige on Architecture
Chapter 7. Arnot Kolmans Critique of Mathematical Fetishism
Chapter 8. Igor Hruovsk on Social Sciences.
