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  • Moritz Schlick

    Edited by B.F. McGuinness ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The idea for this issue arose during a gathering of scholars to com memorate the hundredth anniversary of Moritz Schlick (1882-1936), the philosopher from Germany whose influence gave Austria its most characteristic philosophical voice between the two world wars. He was cut off, tragically, in his prime and while he escaped the exile that awaited most of those who thought like him, he was unable ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Prolegomena to a Critical Grammar

    by Josef Schächter ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book is the first English version of Prolegomena zu einer kritischen Grammatik, published by Julius Springer, Vienna, 1935, as Volume 10 of the Vienna Circle's series Schriften zur wissenschaftlichen Weltauffassung. The prefatory remarks of both editor and author acknowledge the influence ofWittgenstein in a general way. However, in aim and approach, the work differs from Wittgenstein's ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Knowledge and Error

    Sketches on the Psychology of Enquiry

    by Ernst Mach ...
    Series series History (R0)

    $188.99 USD

  • The Infinite in Mathematics

    Logico-mathematical writings

    Translated by Paul Foulkes ...
    by Felix Kaufmann ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The main item in the present volume was published in 1930 under the title Das Unendliche in der Mathematik und seine Ausschaltung. It was at that time the fullest systematic account from the standpoint of Husserl's phenomenology of what is known as 'finitism' (also as 'intuitionism' and 'constructivism') in mathematics. Since then, important changes have been required in philosophies of ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Theoretical Physics and Philosophical Problems

    Selected Writings

    by Ludwig Boltzmann ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    l. The work of Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906) consists of two kinds of writings: in the first part of his active life he devoted himself entirely to problems of physics, while in the second part he tried to find a philosoph 1 ical background for his activities in and around the natural sciences. Most scientists are much more aware of his creative work in physics than of his digressions on the ... Read more

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  • Philosophical Papers

    by Friedrich Waismann ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)

    $89.99 USD

  • Principles of the Theory of Heat

    Historically and Critically Elucidated

    by Ernst Mach ...
    Series series History (R0)
    xi should hope for "first and foremost" from any historical investigation, including his own, was that "it may not be too tedious. " II That hope is generally realized in Mach's historical writings, most of which are as lively and interesting now as they were when they appeared. Mach did not follow any existing model of historical or philosophical or scientific exposition, but went at things his ... Read more

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  • Empiricism, Logic and Mathematics

    Philosophical Papers

    by Hans Hahn ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The role Hans Hahn played in the Vienna Circle has not always been sufficiently appreciated. It was important in several ways. In the ftrst place, Hahn belonged to the trio of the original planners of the Circle. As students at the University of Vienna and throughout the fIrst decade of this century, he and his friends, Philipp Frank and Otto Neurath, met more or less regularly to discuss ... Read more

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  • Unified Science

    The Vienna Circle Monograph Series originally edited by Otto Neurath, now in an English edition

    Edited by B.F. McGuinness ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    a priori, and what is more, to a rejection based ultimately on a posteriori findings; in other words, the "pure" science of nature in Kant's sense of the term had proved to be, not only not pure, but even false. As for logic and mathematics, the decisive works of Frege, Russell, and White head suggested two conclusions: first, that it was possible to construct mathematics on the basis of logic ... Read more

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  • Ethics and the Will

    Essays

    Translated by H. Kaal ...
    by Friedrich Waismann, Josef Schächter, Moritz Schlick ...
    Series Book 21 - Vienna Circle Collection

    $143.99 USD

  • Reminiscences of the Vienna Circle and the Mathematical Colloquium

    by Karl Menger ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Karl Menger was born in Vienna on January 13, 1902, the only child of two gifted parents. His mother Hermione, nee Andermann (1870-1922), in addition to her musical abilities, wrote and published short stories and novelettes, while his father Carl (1840-1921) was the noted Austrian economist, one of the founders of marginal utility theory. A highly cultured man, and a liberal rationalist in the ... Read more

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  • The Fourth Dimension

    Sacred Geometry, Alchemy & Mathematics (CW 324a)

    by Rudolf Steiner ...
    Translated by Catherine E. Creeger ...
    6 lectures, Berlin, March 24-June 7, 1905;2 lectures, Nov. 7, 1905 & Oct. 22, 1908;Questions & Answers, 1904-1922 (CW 324)The point, line, plane and solid objects represent the first three dimensions, but a kind of reversal of space is involved in the ascent to a fourth dimension. Steiner leads us to the brink of this new perspective--as nearly as it can be done with words, diagrams, analogies, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD