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(1992) Ernst Mach — a deeper look, Dordrecht, Springer.

The "Verein Ernst Mach" - what was it really?

Friedrich Stadler

pp. 363-377

It seemed plausible to most members of the Vienna Circle, the philosophical group most responsible for the rise of Logical Positivism, who also saw themselves as representatives of a scientific movement with tendencies based on the Enlightenment, to do their best to help spread and popularize the heart of their own teachings.1 They also stood in the adult-education tradition of empirically-minded philosophers and scientists of the recently dismembered Austro-Hungarian Monarchy such as Ernst Mach, Ludwig Boltzmann, Friedrich Jodl, Wilhelm Jerusalem, and Adolf Stöhr. The leading members of the Vienna Circle decided during the l920's in a manner consistent with this earlier tradition and their own clear intentions to begin institutionalizing the adult-education half of their movement, bring more popular attention to their version of philosophical positivism, especially to its recent enrichment by Mach, Wittgenstein, and Russell.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-2771-4_18

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Stadler, F. (1992)., The "Verein Ernst Mach" - what was it really?, in J. Blackmore (ed.), Ernst Mach — a deeper look, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 363-377.

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