Vienna Circle
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The Vienna Circle was an influential early 20th-century group of philosophers and scientists in Vienna who promoted a scientifically grounded, anti-metaphysical approach to philosophy that became known as logical positivism.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
intellectual group
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philosophical movement → scientific community → |
| activeIn |
20th century
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interwar period → |
| associatedWith |
Karl Popper
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Ludwig Wittgenstein → |
| coreIdea |
distinction between analytic and synthetic statements
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elimination of metaphysics from meaningful discourse → emphasis on empirical science as source of knowledge → logical analysis of language → reduction of philosophical problems to logical syntax → unity of science → verification principle of meaning → |
| country |
Austria
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| dissolvedBecauseOf |
assassination of Moritz Schlick
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emigration of members → rise of Nazism → |
| field |
epistemology
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logic → philosophy → philosophy of science → |
| influenced |
analytic philosophy
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linguistic turn in philosophy → logical empiricism → philosophy of science → scientific realism debates → |
| influencedBy |
Albert Einstein
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Bertrand Russell → David Hume → Ernst Mach → Gottlob Frege → Ludwig Wittgenstein → modern physics → |
| language |
German
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| legacy |
establishment of logical empiricism in the United States
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influence on postwar analytic philosophy → institutionalization of philosophy of science as a discipline → |
| location |
Vienna
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| member |
Friedrich Waismann
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Hans Hahn → Hans Reichenbach → Herbert Feigl → Karl Menger → Kurt Gödel → Moritz Schlick → Otto Neurath → Philipp Frank → Rudolf Carnap → Victor Kraft → |
| movement |
logical empiricism
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logical positivism → |
| philosophicalStance |
anti-metaphysical
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scientific worldview → verificationism → |
| published |
Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung – Der Wiener Kreis
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