The Vienna Circle in the Nordic Countries

The rise of scientific (analytic) philosophy since the turn of the twentieth century is linked to the philosophical interaction between, on the one hand, Ernst Mach, the Vienna Circle around Moritz Schlick and Otto Neurath, the Berlin Group (Hans Reichenbach, Carl G. Hempel), and the Prague Group (R...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Manninen, Juha (Editor), Stadler, Friedrich (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
Series:Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, 14
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Table of Contents:
  • The Vienna Circle in the Nordic Countries
  • Arne Naess — Dogmas and Problems of Empiricism
  • Niels Bohr and the Vienna Circle
  • Between the Vienna Circle and Ludwig Wittgenstein — The Philosophical Teachers of G. H. von Wright
  • Theoria and Logical Empiricism On the tensions between the National and the International in Philosophy
  • Positivism before Logical Positivism in Nordic Philosophy
  • The Earliest Extensive Receptions of Mach in the North
  • Kaila's Critique of Vitalism
  • Kaila and Reichenbach as Protagonists of ‘Naturphilosophie’
  • Jørgen Jørgensen and Logical Positivism
  • The Debate on Begriffstheorie Between Cassirer, Marc-Wogau — and Schlick
  • The Nature and Status of Scientific Metatheory. The Debate between Otto Neurath and Åke Petzäll
  • Young Ketonen and his Supreme Logical Discovery
  • Empiricism, Pragmatism, Behaviorism: Arne NÆss and the Growth of American-styled Social Research in Norway after World War II
  • General Part
  • Jaakko Hintikka in the Library of Living Philosophers: A Dialogue
  • On Unity and Disunity in the Sciences: Variations of Ancient Themata
  • Enlightenment and Formal Romanticism — Carnap's Account of Philosophy as Explication
  • An Improbable Case of Philosophy: Arne Naess between Empiricism, Existentialism and Metaphysics.