Vienna Circle
Verification principle originators
The Vienna Circle was a group of philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists who met in Vienna during the 1920s and 1930s to develop logical positivism—the view that meaningful statements must be either logically provable or empirically verifiable.
Their influence shaped analytic philosophy and the philosophy of science.
Members included Rudolf Carnap, Moritz Schlick, and Kurt Gödel.
All is matter
- scientific worldviewUnderstanding based on empirical evidence
- formal languageElevated, rule-governed expression
- reductionismExplaining wholes through parts
- philosophy of scienceStudy of scientific reasoning
Facts gathered through senses
- logical analysisMethodical examination of reasoning
- formal languageElevated, rule-governed expression
- inductionFormal admission process
- deductionConclusion from premises
falsifiability · measurement · quantification · experimentation · evidence · data · objectivity · scientific method
Social milieu of cafés
- interwar period1918 to 1939
- 1920sPost-WWI American decade
- 1930sFourth decade, twentieth century
- emigrationLeaving homeland permanently
A.J. Ayer
- Karl PopperPhilosopher of scientific method
- Bertrand Russell
physicalism
All is matter
- scientific worldviewUnderstanding based on empirical evidence
- formal languageElevated, rule-governed expression
- reductionismExplaining wholes through parts
empirical observation
Facts gathered through senses
- logical analysisMethodical examination of reasoning
- formal languageElevated, rule-governed expression
- inductionFormal admission process
deduction · falsifiability · measurement · quantification · experimentation · evidence · data · objectivity · scientific method · hypothesis testing
coffeehouse culture
Social milieu of cafés
- interwar period1918 to 1939
- 1920sPost-WWI American decade
- 1930sFourth decade, twentieth century
- Modern PhilosophySartre, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Russell, Nietzsche
- Austrian WomenHedy Lamarr, Marie Antoinette
- Cultural MovementsRenaissance, Baroque, Romanticism, Harlem Renaissance, Enlightenment
- modern thoughtexistentialism, phenomenology, structuralism, postmodernism, pragmatism
- Vienna HistoryGustav Klimt, Klimt, Sigmund Freud, Freud
- Analytic PhilosophyBertrand Russell, G.E. Moore, linguistic analysis, A.J. Ayer, logical analysis
Vienna Circlephenomenology
Study of subjective experience
existentialism · hermeneutics · deconstruction · poststructuralism · postmodernism
Vienna Circletheology
Study of the divine
scholasticism · perennial philosophy · theosophy · Thomas Aquinas · Immanuel Kant
Vienna CircleKierkegaard
Danish existentialist theologian
negative theology · koan · Friedrich Nietzsche · post-structuralism
circle, circuit, circular, circulate, encircle, circulation, circling, semicircle, Vienna