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Moritz Schlick 14 April 1882 – 22 June 1936 : Early Background
1904: Receives Ph.D. / 1905: Works way to Zurich to study Philosophy / 1908: Writes an ethical tract, Lebensweisheit." / 1910: Secures a position at Rostock, Moves on to Kiel, Writes an analysis of concept-formation, "The Boundaries of Scientific and Philosophical Concept Formation." / Writes an essay, “The Nature of Truth in Modern Logic.” / 1922: Assumes the Chair of Naturphilosophie at Vienna -
Moritz Schlick 14 April 1882 – 22 June 1936: The Start of the Vienna Circle
1926: Writes the essay; “Experience, Cognition, and Metaphysics," which represents an important period in his thinking. He attempts to link current influences on his thought – Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and Carnap’s Aufbau – with his earlier ideas, especially the distinction between intuitions and concepts -
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Moritz Schlick 14 April 1882 – 22 June 1936: Logical Positivism
1930: Writes, “The Turning Point in Philosophy,” describing philosophy as the analysis of meaning / 1932: Writes the essay “Positivism and Realism”, describing science's need for verifiability; experience and openness to future verifications, Cites Einstein’s “simultaneity” in Special Relativity, Calls the philosophical view, “Logical Positivism”, introduced by A. E. Blumberg and Herbert Feigl POSITIVISM in 2 minutes! -
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Moritz Schlick 14 April 1882 – 22 June 1936: Protocol Sentence Controversy
1934: Writes essay, “On the Foundations of Knowledge,” introducing ‘affirmations’ in efforts to analyze the relation between physical protocols and the experiences from which they are based / 1935: Writes, “Logik und Erkenntnistheorie,” explaining the importance of grammatical rules and narrowing to observable situations. 1936: Writes, “Meaning and Verification” demonstrating truth which is unfalsifiable, Death: June 22, 1936, shot by Johann Nelböck, a former philosophy student