Empiricism, Logic and Mathematics: Philosophical Papers (Vienna Circle Collection, Volume 13)

Hans Hahn, Brian F. McGuinness

ISBN 10: 9027710651 / ISBN 13: 9789027710659

Editore: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1980

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• Titolo: Empiricism, Logic and Mathematics: Philosophical Papers (Vienna Circle Collection, Volume 13)
• Editore: D. Reidel Publishing Company
• Data di pubblicazione: 1980
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9027710651
• ISBN 13: 9789027710659
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

The role Hans Hahn played in the Vienna Circle has not always been sufficiently appreciated. It was important in several ways. In the ftrst place, Hahn belonged to the trio of the original planners of the Circle. As students at the University of Vienna and throughout the fIrst decade of this century, he and his friends, Philipp Frank and Otto Neurath, met more or less regularly to discuss philosophical questions. When Hahn accepted his fIrSt professorial position, at the University of Czernowitz in the north­ east of the Austrian empire, and the paths of the three friends parted, they decided to continue such informal discussions at some future time - perhaps in a somewhat larger group and with the cooperation of a philosopher from the university. Various events delayed the execution of the project. Drafted into the Austrian army during the first world war" Hahn was wounded on the Italian front. Toward the end of the war he accepted an offer from the University of Bonn extended in recognition of his remarkable 1 mathematical achievements. He remained in Bonn until the spring of 1921 when he returm:d to Vienna and a chair of mathe­ matics at his alma mater. There, in 1922, the Mach-Boltzmann professorship for the philosophy of the inductive sciences became vacant by the death of Adolf Stohr; and Hahn saw a chance to realize his and his friends' old plan.

Contenuti

I Superfluous Entities, or Occam’s Razor (1930).- II The Significance of the Scientific World View, Especially for Mathematics and Physics (1930).- III Discussion about the Foundations of Mathematics (1930).- IV Empiricism, Mathematics, and Logic (1929).- V Reflections on Max Planck’s Positivismus und reale Aussenwelt (?1931).- VI Review of Alfred Pringsheim, Vorlesungen über Zahlen- und Funktionenlehre, Vol. I, parts I and II, Leipzig and Berlin 1916 (1919).- VII The Crisis in Intuition (1933).- VIII Does the Infinite exist? (1934).- Bibliography of the Works of H. Hahn.