Author: Rescher, Nicolas

Source: Erkenntnis, Volume 64, Number 3, May 2006 , pp. 281-304(24)

Publisher: Springer

Abstract:

What has become generally known as the Berlin School of Logical Empiricism constitutes a philosophical movement that was erected on foundations laid by Albert Einstein. His revolutionary work in physics had a profound impact on philosophers interested in scientific issues, prominent among them Paul Oppenheim and Hans Reichenbach, the founding fathers of the school, who joined in viewing him as their hero among philosopher-scientists. Overall the membership of this school falls into three groups. The founding generation was linked by the circumstance that both Grelling and Reichenbach were collaborators of Oppenheim; the middle generation by the fact that both Hempel and Helmer were students of Reichenbach's in Berlin; and the younger generation by the fact that all of its members were students and (at least in their early years) disciples either of Reichenbach's or of Hempel's in the USA. Three stages are at issue: an initial phase in Berlin, a transatlantic migration, and a continuation in the U.S.A.—principally in Pittsburgh.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10670-005-4311-7

Affiliations: 1: Email: rescher@pitt.edu

Publication date: 2006-05-01

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