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In this century there has hardly been a group of philosophers more shrouded in misunderstandings and prejudices than the Vienna Circle. (This is best summed up in Passmore’s verdict of 1968: “Logical positivism, then, is dead as a philosophical movement ever becomes”.)1 After a long slumber this movement is presently experiencing a reawakening of historical interest in its main protagonists and ideas. Critical reassessment was spurred by the edition of the Vienna Circle Collection (eds. H.L. Mulder, R.S. Cohen, B. McGuinness, Reidel/Kluwer Dordrecht, 1974ff.), followed by the publication of the contributions to the 3rd International Wittgenstein Symposium 1978 (Berghel, Hübner, Köhler, 1979). Several years ago a series of writings on the Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism was initiated (Wiener Kreis — Schrien zum Logischen Empirismus, eds. H.L. Mulder, R.S. Cohen, B. McGuinness, R. Hegselmann, A.J. Kox, F. Stadler, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1986ff.).2
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The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, vol. 5–6, p.52, London 1968.
Cf. Michael Friedman’s “The Re-Evaluation of Logical Positivism”, The Journal of Philosophy, vol. LXXXVIII, no. 10, October 1991, for references to the critical reconsideration of logical positivism in America.
See Friedrich Stadler’s very thorough study on the the influence of Ernst Mach in Austria, between 1895 and 1934, Vom Positivismus zur wissenschaftlichen Weltauffassung, Wien-München, 1982.
For some excellent examples of such interpretation see the essays in H.-J. Dahms, (ed.), Philosophie, Wissenschaft und Aufklärung, Berlin-New York, 1985. Cf. also E. Mohn, Der Logische Positivismus. Theorien und politische Praxis seiner Vertreter, Frankfurt 1977.
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Nielsen, C.R. (1993). Jour Fixe der Vernunft. Der Wiener Kreis und die Folgen. Hg. von Paul Kruntorad, unter Mitwirkung von Rudolf Haller und Willy Hochkeppel. (Bd.1 der Veröffentlichungen des Instituts Wiener Kreis, hg. von Friedrich Stadler). Wien: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky 1991. Geier, Manfred, Der Wiener Kreis. Reinbek bei Hamburg: rororo Monographie 1992. Uebel, Thomas E. (Ed.), Rediscovering the Forgotten Vienna Circle. Austrian Studies on Otto Neurath and the Vienna Circle. Dordrecht: Kluwer 1991. In: Stadler, F. (eds) Scientific Philosophy: Origins and Developments. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook [1993], vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2964-2_16
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