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.
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Notable PublicationGeneral Theory of Knowledge (1918) 2 TraditionLogical Positivism, Vienna Circle 2 Connections
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Source Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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- Also in Geography Atlas: Germany, originated there.
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1. Wikipedia: Moritz Schlick
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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.
2. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and Informations.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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