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In the Vienna Circle archives in Haarlem, NL, there are a great number of protocols connected with Moritz Schlick’s philosophical chair – manuscripts, typescripts and shorthand manuscripts. They contain extensive and detailed information about Schlick’s seminars and also about the elementary seminars, so-called proseminars, which were held, as the documents explain: “bei Prof. Schlick”, but actually after 1929 not by him. Since his arrival in Vienna, Schlick was responsible for these both types of seminars and they were under his supervision. They are documented mainly by students. The different participants had the task of producing a handwritten report of the meeting, later also typescripts. It is not mentioned in the protocols who was responsible for the elementary seminars. The professor was the person who mattered. It is interesting to observe that while Schlick’s seminars mainly contained descriptions of chapters in philosophical books, the proseminars were more ambitious.
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I am in great gratitude to Brian McGuinness for his resourcefulness and advice in preparing this paper. I also profi ted much from conversations with Martin Kusch, Alois Pichler, Josef Rothhaupt, Joachim Schulte and Friedrich Stadler. As usual, they are not responsible for my suggestions. I want to thank the Archives for Scientifi c Philosophy, the Vienna Circle Archive and the Duke University Archive for the permission to quote from their materials.
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Manninen, J. (2011). Waismann’s Testimony of Wittgenstein’s Fresh Starts in 1931–35. In: McGuinness, B. (eds) Friedrich Waismann - Causality and Logical Positivism. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1751-0_10
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