The Berlin school of logical empiricism and its legacy

DOI10.1007/S10670-005-4311-7MaRDI QIDQ868513zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Nicholas Rescher

Publication date 6 March 2007

Published in Erkenntnis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-005-4311-7

zbMATH Keywords

Berlin SchoolHans Reichenbachlogical empiricismPaul Oppenheim

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Schools of mathematics (01A72) History of mathematical logic and foundations (03-03) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05)

Review text

A survey of a school of philosophers that arose in Berlin and, after the emigrations of the 1930s, continued in the United States. The school as a whole was oriented more towards issues in the philosophy of science, rather than foundations of mathematics. But many of the people involved had mathematical backgrounds, and, for example, Hilary Putnam had a hand in the solution of Hilbert's Tenth Problem on Diophantine equations.

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