Friedrich Waismann - Causality and Logical Positivism

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: McGuinness, B.F (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, Institut `Wiener Kreis' Society for the Advancement of the Scientific World Conception, 15
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Epistemology.; Philosophy and science.; Philosophy of Science.; History of Philosophy.

Friedrich Waismann (1896–1959) was one of the most gifted students and collaborators of Moritz Schlick. Accepted as a discussion partner by Wittgenstein from 1927 on, he functioned as spokesman for the latter’s ideas in the Schlick Circle, until Wittgenstein’s contact with this most faithful interpr...