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Towards the end of his life Neurath referred to the 'mosaic of the sciences'. In the spirit of this formulation we can arrive at an understanding of his life's work by means of a kind of collage, employing the regulative idea of the unity of science and society.

Friedrich Stadler

The history of the development of Logical Empiricist theories since the turn of the century does not allow any clear canonization of a philosophical school in the strict sense, since what we are dealing with is a dynamic between center and periphery. The varying receptions of Wittgenstein, Tarski and Popper have influenced the development of various philosophies of science inspired by rational reconstruction, on the one hand, and by encyclopedic models on the other.

Friedrich Stadler

Many innovations of current history and philosophy of science were, in fact, anticipated in Neurath's oeuvre. The rediscovery of Neurath was therefore not merely a phenomenon of academic nostalgia, but itself constitutes research into the conditions and possibilities of changing a paradigm in the philosophy of science.

Friedrich Stadler

What is the Vienna Circle? is a question which is neither rhetorical nor trivial. It is perhaps an attempt to 'square the circle' – which is, meanwhile, mathematically possible, as Karl Menger described as early as 1934.

Friedrich Stadler

Friedrich Stadler

Friedrich Stadler

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Born: July 17, 1951 (age 75)

Bio: Friedrich Stadler is an Austrian historian of science and philosopher of science, and professor for history and philosophy of science at the University of Vienna.

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