Empiricism and Sociology
On the last day of his life, Otto Neurath had given help to a Chinese philosopher who was writing about Schlick. Only an hour before his death he said to me: "Nobody will do such a thing for me." My answer then was: "Never mind, you have Bilston, isn't th
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VIENNA CIRCLE COLLECTION
Editorial Committee HENK
L.
MULDER,
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
ROBERT S. COHEN,
Boston University, Boston, Mass., U.S.A.
BRIAN MCGUINNESS,
The Queen's College, Oxford, England
Editorial Advisory Board ALFRED
Y. ALBERT
E.
J.
AYER,
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
BAR-HILLEL, BLUMBERG,
HASKELL
New College, Oxford, England
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., U.S.A.
B. CURRY, University of Pittsburgh, Penn., U.S.A.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn., U.S.A.
HERBERT FEIGL,
ERWIN N. HIEBERT,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.
JAAKKO HINTIKKA,
Academy of Finland, Helsinki, Finland
VIKTOR KRAFT,
KARL
MENGER,
Vienna, Austria
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill., U.S.A.
GABRIEL NUCHELMANS, J. F. STAAL,
University of Leyden, Leyden, The Netherlands
University of California, Berkeley, Calif., U.S.A.
VOLUME
1
Otto Neurath on December 21,1945.
OTTO NEURATH
EMPIRICISM AND SOCIOLOGY Edited by
MARIE NEURATH and ROBERT S. COHEN
With a Selection of Biographical and Autobiographical Sketches
D. REIDEL PUBLISHING COMPANY DORDRECHT-HOLLAND / BOSTON-U.S.A.
Translations from the German by Paul Foulkes and Marie Neurath
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 72-95889 ISBN-13; 978-90-277-0259-3 DOl: 10.1007/978-94-010-2525-6
e-ISBN-13: 978-94-010-2525-6
Published by D. Reidel Publishing Company, P.O. Box 17, Dordrecht, Holland Published in the U.S.A., Canada, and Mexico by D. Reidel Publishing Company, Inc. 306 Dartmouth Street, Boston, Mass. 02116, U.S.A.
All Rights Reserved Copyright © 1973 by D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher
VIENNA CIRCLE COLLECTION
The Vienna Circle was a discussion group of philosophically interested specialists who came together in 1923 and from 1925 to 1936 met regularly once a week in an institute of Vienna University. These gatherings were conducted by Moritz Schlick, the physicist and philosopher who was appointed professor of the philosophy of inductive sciences in 1922. Over the years, members included Hans Hahn, Otto Neurath, Philipp Frank, Viktor Kraft, Herbert Feigl, Friedrich Waismann, Rudolf Carnap, Kurt Godel, Karl Menger, Bela Juhos and others. There was no conscious aim of radically revising traditional views on the task and place of philosophy, but the members were on the whole well aware that current findings of research into the foundations of logic, mathematics and the natural sciences had important philosophic consequences. Among subjects for discussion were Wittgenstein's Tractatus, the possibility of reducing all concepts of science to what is directly given in experience, the setting up of a criterion of meaningfulness for non-logical utterances, the character of the basic propositions of empirical science, and the devising of a meta-language for the syntactic analysis of scientific langu
