The Vienna Circle: Studies in the Origins, Development, and Influence of Logical Empiricism

This abridged and revised edition of the original book (Springer—Wien—New York: 2001) offers the only comprehensive history and documentation of the Vienna Circle based on new sources with an innovative historiographical approach to the study of science. With reference to previously unpublished archival material and more recent literature, it refutes a number of widespread clichés about "neo—positivism" or "logical positivism". Following some insights on the relation between the history of ...