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(2002) History of philosophy of science, Dordrecht, Springer.
Neo-Kantian origins of modern empiricism
on the relation between Popper and the Vienna circle
Lothar Schäfer
pp. 43-55
Modern empiricism is usually thought to have emerged in opposition to the then dominant school of neo-Kantianism. True as this may be, it has blinded us to the fact that Kantian and more surprisingly even neo-Kantian elements of philosophy have also had a positive influence upon the development of the new empiricism. One episode in which this influence proves itself in fact dominant and which I will present in the following concerns the philosophical position which Popper adopted vis-à-vis logical empiricism — as advocated by Wittgenstein and Schlick — in Vienna in the late twenties and early thirties of the last century.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-1785-4_4
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Schäfer, L. (2002)., Neo-Kantian origins of modern empiricism: on the relation between Popper and the Vienna circle, in M. Heidelberger & F. Stadler (eds.), History of philosophy of science, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 43-55.
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