Schlick

Dr. Moritz Schlick (1882-1936) by Jennifer Albrecht-Sheets

By jsheets00

  • Birth of Moritz Schlick

    Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick was born in Berlin, Germany to a wealthy family. Encyclopædia Britannica, inc. (n.d.). Moritz Schlick. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved October 22, 2022, from https://www.britannica.com/biography/Moritz-Schlick

  • PhD

    In 1904, Moritz Schlick received his PhD.

  • Marriage

    Marriage
    Dr. Moritz Schlick married Blanche Hardy at their family home. The wedding event was covered by the Fitchburg Daily Sentinel. Ray, Danielle. “Ashburnham Wedding Portraits Mimic Ones Taken 115 Years Ago in Same Spot.” Sentinel and Enterprise, Sentinel and Enterprise, 22 Oct. 2022, www.sentinelandenterprise.com/2022/10/22/ashburnham-wedding-portraits-mimic-ones-taken-115-years-ago-in-same-spot/.

  • Published Raum und Zeit in der gegenwärtigen Physik (Space and Time in Contemporary Physics)

    Published Raum und Zeit in der gegenwärtigen Physik (Space and Time in Contemporary Physics)
    He published Space and Time in Contemporary Physics, which discussed the new findings concerning the Laws of Relativity. It was highly acclaimed by Einstein himself and many others. Oberdan, Thomas. “Moritz Schlick.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 13 Oct. 2017, plato.stanford.edu/entries/schlick/.

  • Published Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre (General Theory of Knowledge)

    Published Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre (General Theory of Knowledge)
    Schlick, M. (1918). Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre, von Moritz Schlick. J. Springer, 1918.

  • Logical Positivism is Born

    Logical Positivism is Born
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e1gdGluXI8 Logical Positivism is “the view that scientific knowledge is the only kind of factual knowledge and that all traditional metaphysical doctrines are to be rejected as meaningless.” (“logical positivism | philosophy | Britannica”) “Logical Positivism.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., www.britannica.com/topic/logical-positivism.

  • Vienna Circle Established

    Vienna Circle Established
    The Vienna Circle met once weekly during academic terms from 1924 - 1936, under the leadership of Dr. Moritz Schlick. "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." (Uebel, 2020) Uebel, Thomas. “Vienna Circle.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1 Apr. 2020, plato.stanford.edu/entries/vienna-circle/.

  • Death of Moritz Schlick

    Death of Moritz Schlick
    As he was leaving class, Dr. Moritz was shot and murdered by a former student named Johann Nelböck. Johann, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, had threatened Dr. Moritz for years before his murder. Oberdan, Thomas. “Moritz Schlick.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 13 Oct. 2017, plato.stanford.edu/entries/schlick/#Dea.