The Vienna Circle - Studies in the Origins, Development, and Influence of Logical Empiricism (Hardcover, 2001)

Part One: The Vienna Circle: Origins, Development, and Influence of Logical Empiricism in Context: Introduction and Overview; Traces of Scientific Philosophy in Imperial Austria: The Social and Cultural Situation - Initial Conditions for the Rise of Scientific Philosophy; Austrian Scientific Philosophy - the Anti-Idealistic Tradition between Logic, Empiricism, and Critique of Language; Ernst Mach - The Anti-Metaphysical Positivist Paradigm; The Origins of Logical Empiricism - Roots of the Vienna Circle before the First World War; The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism in the First Republic; The Non-Public Phase of the Vienna Circle 1918-1929; The Public Phase of the Vienna Circle: From 1929 until the Anschluss; Karl Menger's Vienna Circle: The Mathematical Colloquium 1928-1936; Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle: Thought Style and Thought Collective; Heinrich Gomperz, Karl Popper, and the Vienna Circle - Between Demarcation and Family Resemblance; Excursus: The Philosophical and Political Pluralism of the Vienna Circle - The Example of Otto Neurath and Moritz Schlick; The Role of the Universities and Institutions of Adult Education - The Demise of Reason; Necrology: The Exodus of Scientific Reason.- Part Two: The Vienna Circle - Biographical and Bibliographical Aspects: Preliminary Remarks; An Overview of the Vienna Circle; The Vienna Circle and its Periphery: Biographies and Bibliographies; Documentation: The Murder of Moritz Schlick