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Although the logical empiricism movement and its program took root in a number of European cities (including Prague and Warsaw), it seems undoubted today, however, that “the projects characteristic of logical empiricism developed primarily in Vienna and Berlin” as Alan Richardson and Thomas Uebel put it only a few years ago. As for these two centres, however, it was Vienna that has attracted much more attention from the scientific community in history and philosophy of science (HPS) in recent decades. Systematic research on the Vienna Circle already started decades ago and has gotten well established today not only in its place of origin but also in many other European countries and above all in North America. In contrast, there have been until now only a few studies on the Berlin Group and its members.
Nikolay Milkov, Volker Peckhaus (Eds.): The Berlin Group and the Philosophy of Logical Empiricism. Dordrecht: Springer 2013.
Nikolay Milkov (Ed.): Die Berliner Gruppe. Texte zum Logischen Empirismus. Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag 2015.
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The key work on the Vienna Circle is still Friedrich Stadler , The Vienna Circle. Studies in the Origins, Development, and Influence of Logical Empiricism. Wien, New York: Springer 2001. Scholars from North America who published on the Vienna Circle, continental logical empiricism and its further development in the USA include Robert Cohen, Nancy Cartwright , Alan Richardson , Gary Hardcastle and Michael Friedmann – to mention but a few.
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Sandner, G. (2017). Review Essay: Two books on the Berlin Group of Logical Empiricists. In: Pihlström, S., Stadler, F., Weidtmann, N. (eds) Logical Empiricism and Pragmatism. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, vol 19. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50730-9_11
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