Moritz Schlick

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academic human philosopher

Moritz Schlick was a German philosopher best known as the founder and leading figure of the Vienna Circle, which helped establish logical positivism as a major movement in 20th-century analytic philosophy.

Statements (58)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academic → human → philosopher →
academicDegree	PhD in physics →
birthCountry	German Empire →
birthDate	1882-04-14 →
birthPlace	Berlin →
causeOfDeath	homicide →
countryOfDeath	Austria →
deathDate	1936-06-22 →
doctoralAdvisor	Max Planck →
doctoralThesis	Über die Reflexion des Lichts in einer inhomogenen Schicht →
doctoralThesisYear	1904 →
educatedAt	University of Berlin → University of Heidelberg → University of Lausanne →
employer	University of Kiel → University of Rostock → University of Vienna →
familyName	Schlick →
fieldOfWork	epistemology → ethics → philosophy → philosophy of science →
gender	male →
givenName	Moritz →
influenced	Hans Reichenbach → Herbert Feigl → Otto Neurath → Rudolf Carnap → logical positivism →
influencedBy	David Hume → Ernst Mach → Immanuel Kant → Ludwig Wittgenstein →
killedBy	Johann Nelböck →
languageOfWorkOrName	German →
mainInterest	foundations of knowledge → verification principle →
mannerOfDeath	assassination →
memberOf	Vienna Circle →
movement	analytic philosophy → logical empiricism → logical positivism →
name	Moritz Schlick →
nationality	German →
notableFor	founding the Vienna Circle → leading figure of logical positivism →
notableWork	Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre → Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre (General Theory of Knowledge) → Fragen der Ethik → Raum und Zeit in der gegenwärtigen Physik →
occupation	philosopher → university professor →
placeOfDeath	Vienna →
positionHeld	Professor of philosophy at the University of Vienna →
role	founder of the Vienna Circle →
workLocation	Vienna →

Referenced by (11)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Carl Hempel → Herbert Feigl → Language, Truth and Logic → Rudolf Carnap →	influencedBy
Ernst Mach → The Analysis of Sensations →	influenced
The Scientific Conception of the World: The Vienna Circle →	associatedWith
Herbert Feigl →	doctoralAdvisor
logical positivism →	keyFigure
Vienna Circle →	member
Moritz Schlick →	name