Moritz Schlick

The idea for this issue arose during a gathering of scholars to com­ memorate the hundredth anniversary of Moritz Schlick (1882-1936), the philosopher from Germany whose influence gave Austria its most characteristic philosophical voice between the two wo

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Reprinted from Synthese, Vol. 64, NO.3 (1985)

D. Reidel Publishing Company / Dordrecht / Boston

ISBN-13 :978-94-0 10-8903-6 e-ISBN-13 :978-94-009-5442-7 001: 10.1007/978-94-009-5442-7

All Rights Reserved Copyright © 1985 by D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1985 No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner

T ABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

272

LUDOVICO GEYMONAT / Development and Continuity in Schlick's Thought

273

RUDOLF HALLER / Problems of Knowledge in Moritz Schlick

283

TSCHA HUNG / Remarks on Affirmations (Konstatierungen)

297

FRANZ VON KUTSCHERA / Moritz Schlick on Self-Evidence

307

WERNER LEINFELLNER / Reconstruction of Schlick's PsychoSociological Ethics

317

BRIAN McGUINNESS / Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle

351

HEINRICH MELZER and JOSEF SCHACHTER / On PhYSicalism

359

HENK MULDER / The Vienna Circle Archive and the Literary Remains of Moritz Schlick and Otto Neurath

375

ANTHONY QUINTON / Schlick before Wittgenstein

389

HUBERT SCHLEICHERT / On the Concept of Unity ofConsciollsness

411

PREFACE

The idea for this issue arose during a gathering of scholars to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of Moritz Schlick (1882-1936), the philosopher from Germany whose influence gave Austria its most characteristic philosophical voice between the two world wars. He was cut off, tragically, in his prime and while he escaped the exile that awaited most of those who thought like him, he was unable (sadly for philosophy) to continue to steer their thoughts in his own direction and he even lost some of the credit for work already done. Thus it seemed to some of his former pupils and to others more remote from him in the tradition that a small collection of papers throwing light on his especial contribution and on the extent to which it is still active or still needed today was a requirement of justice no less than of piety. Tscha Hung, a member of the Vienna Circle and since director of the Institute for Western Philosophy at Peking University, was the chief mover here. Also among the contributors, Ludovico Geymonat (Professor at Milan) was a visitor to the Circle and a friend of Schlick. Henrich Melzer and Joseph Schlichter were Viennese pupils of Schlick's. The former died in the war of 1939-45, the latter is still prominent in the cultural and educational life of Israel. The other contributors are four professors, Rudolf Haller (Graz), Franz von Kutschera (Regensburg), Werner Leinfellner (Nebraska (Lincoln) and Vienna (Technical University)), and Hubert Schleichert (Constance); then Henk Mulder, Director of the Vienna Circle Archive in Amsterdam, which he here describes, and two Oxonians, Lord Quinton, President of Trinity College, and the Guest Editor of this issue, Fellow of Queen's College. Translati