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Moritz Schlick

MOR-its SHLIK
Philosophy of Science

A German philosopher of science who chaired the philosophy of the inductive sciences at the University of Vienna from 1922 and convened the informal Thursday-evening discussion group that became known as the Vienna Circle, giving logical positivism its institutional home; he was shot and killed on the university steps in 1936 by a former student.

Facts
Birth Year
1882 2
Notable Publication
General Theory of Knowledge (1918) 2
Death Year
1936 2
Tradition
Logical Positivism, Vienna Circle 2
Classification
Nationality
Germany 1
Tradition
Tradition (category)
Positivism 2
Connections

Associated With

Logical Positivism, Schools of Philosophy
Source Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

In Branch

Philosophy of Science, Branches of Philosophy
Source Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

In Tradition

Positivism, Schools of Philosophy

Traditions Founded

Logical Positivism, Schools of Philosophy
Source Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Nationality

Germany

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Originated In

Germany

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Source Wikipedia: Moritz SchlickLead sentence 1tier 2
Quote, Lead sentence 1
Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick (; German: [ʃlɪk] ; 14 April 1882 – 22 June 1936) was a German philosopher, physicist, and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Moritz Schlick
Wikipedia
  • Lead, opening sentence
    Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick (; German: [ʃlɪk] ; 14 April 1882-22 June 1936) was a German philosopher, physicist, and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle.
  • In Group: Analytic Philosophy Of Science, Infobox: school_tradition
    Analytic philosophy Vienna Circle Logical positivism Foundationalism
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2. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and Information
  • s.v. The Vienna Circle
    Their radically anti-metaphysical stance was supported by an empiricist criterion of meaningfulness and a broadly logicist conception of mathematics.
  • Associated With: Logical Positivism
  • In Branch: Philosophy of Science
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Wikidata: Moritz Schlick
Wikidata Q57193, class allow-list match, case-insensitive label variant (w-bbfill-smallsix2-0926/resolve_ci.ps1)View the Source
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