Theoria — a Swedish journal for philosophy (and Psychology until 1965) was founded in 1935, at a time when the conditions for the logical empiricists on the European continent were deteriorating as a result of the rise of fascism and Nazism. In a letter, dated August 11 1936, to the editor-in-chief of Theoria, Åke Petzäll, the Finnish philosopher Eino Kaila claimed that it was only a matter of time until the journal Erkenntnis would be closed down and suggested that Theoria could step in as a replacement.
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Strang, J. (2010). Theoria and Logical Empiricism On the tensions between the National and the International in Philosophy. In: Manninen, J., Stadler, F. (eds) The Vienna Circle in the Nordic Countries. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3683-4_4
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