Research Catalog

Title

The Vienna Circle in Czechoslovakia / Radek Schuster, editor.

Publication

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2020]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Schuster, Radek

Description

• 211 pages.; 25 cm.
• xii, 204 pages : illustrations ;

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.

Series Statement

Vienna Circle Institute yearbook ; 23

Uniform Title

Vienna Circle Institute yearbook ; 23.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Vienna circle
• Logical positivism
• Philosophy > Austria > 20th century
• Philosophy > Czechoslovakia > 20th century
• Philosophy
• Czechoslovakia
• Austria

Genre/Form

Informational works.

Contents

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. Arnošt Kolmans Critique of Mathematical Fetishism -- Chapter 8. Igor Hrušovský on Social Sciences.

Call Number

JFE 22-881

ISBN

• 3030363821
• 9783030363826

OCLC

1126673107

Title

The Vienna Circle in Czechoslovakia / Radek Schuster, editor.

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2020]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Vienna Circle Institute yearbook ; 23

Vienna Circle Institute yearbook ; 23.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Schuster, Radek, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 22-881