The Sociology of Philosophies

and Moore. In Germany, Brentano is upstaged by Husserl, and he in turn by Heidegger; another branch of Brentano’s succession, th ...

secularization had long since taken place. France, whose academic organization differed most from the German model adopted elsew ...

filter experience. Suddenly the atmosphere turned unsympathetic. Instead of allowing Neo-Kantians to broaden their stance, Schli ...

up the most energizing issues; older positions were squeezed out, not because they were no longer viable but because there was n ...

theoretical physicists worked to preserve the centrality of mechanical laws of bodies, a paradigm which had led to so many past ...

adopted a Neo-Kantian stance (Passmore, 1968: 333). The popular pronounce- ments of relativity physicists such as Eddington and ...

or the reform of logic; it was Carnap and Wittgenstein who brought these into the center of attention at Vienna. The central mem ...

The Frege-Russell line was represented by Carnap, who came to Vienna in 1926, and Wittgenstein, who began discussions with the C ...

FIGURE 13.6. NETWORK OF MATHEMATICAL LOGIC AND FOUNDATIONS 726 •^ Intellectual Communities: Western Paths ...

and was especially close to Gödel. It was with some sense of showdown that Brouwer was invited to lecture at Vienna in March 192 ...

Circle network, proclaimed the end of the verification criterion and its replace- ment by falsification.^27 The moment when Popp ...

been not the end of the logicist movement but the beginning of its fame; Gödel’s proof did not destroy but added heat to the fir ...

Circle alive shifted to points at issue between the programs of Carnap and Neurath. For Neurath, science can be sufficiently dem ...

The Ordinary Language Reaction against Logical Formalism The ordinary language school became popular as a reaction against the l ...

there is a plurality of good objects which need have nothing in common. On the practical side of ethics, Moore retains a Utilita ...

The Victorian-Edwardian intellectual kinship network was based on the mobilization of political and religious reform movements i ...

ticated philosophical alternatives that might be raised against such statements, none of their reasons are conclusive, and on th ...

of the core networks of his time. In each place he came in contact with the current attention leader: Russell in 1912–1914, Schl ...

tion. Throughout his life Wittgenstein succeeded in finding groups of this sort and making whatever iconoclastic move would brin ...

became sufficiently generalized, some mathematicians flowed into philosophy, meshing with philosophical disputes and initiating ...