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April 14 1882 Birth of Moritz Schlick
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Life and times of Moritz Schlick
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Marriage
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Published Space and Time in Contemporary Physics
Raum und Zeit in der gegenwärtigen Physik - Space and Time in Contemporary Physics. This was a philosophical review of the newly released physics concerning the Laws of relativity. Einstein regarded this as a well written account of the philosophy behind his works.
(Oberdan, "Moritz Schlick")
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Published General Theory of Knowledge
Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre (1918; General Theory of Knowledge),
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BBC Lecture on Logical Positivium
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Logical Positivism
While it’s hard to pin point an exact date in the 1920s that the Logical Positivium movment took off, it’s widely regarded that Schlick was one of its founding fathers along with its development through the Vienna Circle. Logical Positivism is the philosophical view of the meaninglessness in answerable questions and the strict adherence to scientific answers being gained by rigorous and logical testing.
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Founded The Vienna Circle
The Vienna Circle met once weekly during 1924 - 1936 ‘The Vienna Circle was a group of early twentieth-century philosophers who sought to reconceptualize empiricism by means of their interpretation of then recent advances in the physical and formal sciences. Their radically anti-metaphysical stance was supported by an empiricist criterion of meaning and a broadly logicist conception of mathematics’
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Published Problem of Ethics
Fragen der Ethik (1930; Problems of Ethics)
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Schlick’s Death
Moritz Schlick was shot down and murdered on the stairs of the Vienna University Libary by a former deranged student. Although the reasons for the crime are muddied with time, the rise of Nazi Germany’s threat to free speech and the former students mental health seem to be contributing factors.
