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Birth: April 14, 1882
Moritz Schlick was born April 14, 1882 in Berlin, Germany.
"Moritz Schlick." New World Encyclopedia, . 20 Oct 2018 -
Education: Completion of Ph.D. in 1904
Schlick attended the University of Berlin to study physics. He completed his Ph.D. in 1904. He then focused his interests on Philosophy, eventually becoming Chair of Naturphilosophie in Vienna in 1922.
Oberdan, Thomas, "Moritz Schlick", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2017 Edition) -
Early Works
In “The Boundaries of Scientific and Philosophical Concept-Formation” (1910), Schlick "identifies the aim of science as the reduction of phenomena to relationships governed by law, thus exhibiting individual events as special cases of universal, exceptionless regularities."
Oberdan, Thomas, "Moritz Schlick", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2017/entries/schlick/ -
The Pre-Positivist Era
"General Theory of Knowledge" and "Space and Time in Contemporary Physics" are two works that distinguished Schlick's Pre-Positivist Era, they were published around 1917 and 1918 ( the latter work was released in essay form, to be revised and released in later editions).
Oberdan, Thomas, "Moritz Schlick", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2017/entries/schlick/ -
The Birth of Logical Positivism
The creation of the Vienna Circle brought about the birth of Logical Positivism, a movement whose followers expressed beliefs that the only kind of factual knowledge is scientific knowledge, and that metaphysical doctrines are meaningless.
Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Logical positivism". Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Apr. 2015 For a concise summary, please check out this video!
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The Vienna Circle (Approx 1920)
Founded by Mortiz Schlick, the Vienna Circle (Wiener Kreis) was a group of mathematicians, philosophers, and scientists who came together to study the form of scientific theories, create a verifiability principle and establish a doctrine of unified science. The latter would mean that the same language, laws, and/or method would be shared across the sciences.
Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Vienna Circle". Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Jun. 2017 -
Assasination
Moritz Schlick was shot and killed by a former philosophy student named Johann Nelböck. Aside from his numerous mental health diagnoses, Nelböck stated that he was driven to kill the professor because "Schlick's anti-metaphysical philosophy had undermined his native moral restraint."
Wikipedia contributors. "Johann Nelböck." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 5 Feb. 2020. Web. 15 Feb. 2021.
