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Moritz Schlick by Cara Rogers

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  • April 14 1882 Birth of Moritz Schlick

    April 14 1882 Birth of Moritz Schlick
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    Life and times of Moritz Schlick

  • Marriage

    Marriage
    Marriage to Blanche Hardy

  • Published Space and Time in Contemporary Physics

    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")
    (Stanford Encyclopedia)

  • Published General Theory of Knowledge

    Published General Theory of Knowledge
    Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre (1918; General Theory of Knowledge),
    (Encyclopedia Brittania)

  • BBC Lecture on Logical Positivium

    BBC Lecture on Logical Positivium
    BBC Lecture on Logical Positivium https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Llkuvr1qnU

  • Logical Positivism

    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.
    (Encyclopedia Brittania)

  • Founded The Vienna Circle

    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’
    (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

  • Published Problem of Ethics

    Published Problem of Ethics
    Fragen der Ethik (1930; Problems of Ethics)
    (Encyclopedia Britannia)

  • Schlick’s Death

    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.