Schlick

(ʃlɪk)

(Biography) Moritz. 1882–1936, German philosopher, working in Austria, who founded (1924) the Vienna Circle to develop the doctrine of logical positivism. His works include the General Theory of Knowledge (1918) and Problems of Ethics (1930)

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It ground to a halt in 1936 with the assassination of Moritz Schlick, who had acted as an intermediary between the two.

B. F. McGuinness, ed.: Friedrich Waismann: Causality and Logical Positivism. [Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook Volume 15]

Early in his career, Hayek was forced to confront the epistemology of the Vienna Circle, the positivism of Ernest Mach and Moritz Schlick. Hayek was convinced that there is more to science than the positivist's reduction of science to description and prediction.

Hayek, F.A. The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek

There are articles on the influence of Abel Rey on the philosophy of science and that of Moritz Schlick. Three of the essays are winners in a competition.

Grazer philosophische studien; internationale Zeitschrift fur analytische philosophie; v.80, 2010

in the year 1929, some members of the Vienna Circle published a philosophical manifesto entitled "The Scientific Conception of the World" (4) and dedicated to Moritz Schlick, the founder of the group.

The doxastic ideal in traditional epistemology and the project of an epistemology of religion

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