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The Philosophical and Political Pluralism of the Vienna Circle—The Example of Otto Neurath and Moritz Schlick

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By comparing the intellectual and personal profiles of Moritz Schlick and Otto Neurath, the Vienna Circle’s two main opposing intellectual figures, we can also gain a clearer sense of the basic features of this group. We can, in other words, trace out the pluralistic theoretical dynamic at work in this heterogeneous scientific circle, explore the material constituting its “psychogram” and “sociogram,” and arrive at a typology of its underlying personal, conceptual, political, philosophical, and scientific elements.

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  1. 1.

    Stadler (ed.) 1982; Haller (ed.) 1982; Haller and Rutte (ed.) 1981; Haller and Kinross (ed.) 1991; Hofmann-Grüneberg 1988; Uebel (ed.) 1991; K. H. Müller 1991; Uebel 1992, 2007; P. Neurath and Nemeth (ed.) 1994; Cartwright et al. 1996; Cat 2014; Sandner 2014.

  2. 2.

    On the so-called basis problem see Hempel 1981; Philippi 1986; Uebel 1992; Oberdan 1993.

  3. 3.

    Cf. Neurath’s letters to Carnap of 5-7-1934, 5-14-1934, 6-17-1934, 12-13-1934, 1-18-1935, 9-22-1935. All WKA Haarlem.

  4. 4.

    Schlick to D. Rynin, 11-4-1933. On this cf. also Schlick to Wolfgang Köhler, 3-13-1934; Schlick to Rudolf Carnap, 1-20-1935; Schlick to Ph. Frank, approx. 1930.

  5. 5.

    The small book Natur und Kultur was edited in 1952 (taken from the estate of Josef Rauscher, a supporter of the Ethic Movement in Austria) in Humboldt Verlag (Vienna-Stuttgart).

  6. 6.

    Neurath to Carnap, 7-18-1934, WKA Haarlem.

  7. 7.

    Neurath to Carnap, 7-1-1936, ibid.

  8. 8.

    Both are acronyms derived from the first letters of International System of Typographic Picture Education or British-American Scientific International Commercial English – the latter being a literary utopia taken from H. G. Wells (The Shape of Things to Come).

  9. 9.

    Schlick 1938. Appeared first in French in 1937 in Travaux du 9e Congrès International de Philosophie (Congrès Descartes). Fasc. 4 (=Actualités scientifiques et industrielles, No. 533), Paris 1938. Reprinted in Schlick 1938. English in Mulder and van de Velde-Schlick (ed.) 1979. Also in Moritz Schlick Gesamtausgabe, section II, vol. 1.2, 489 ff.

  10. 10.

    Neurath to Herbert Feigl 1938 (exact date missing), WKA Haarlem.

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Stadler, F. (2015). The Philosophical and Political Pluralism of the Vienna Circle—The Example of Otto Neurath and Moritz Schlick. In: The Vienna Circle. Vienna Circle Institute Library, vol 4. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16561-5_8

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