
Empiricism, Logic and Mathematics
Philosophical Papers
Hans Hahn(Author)
B.F. McGuinness(Editor)
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published on 30. June 1980
Book
Paperback/Softback
XX, 142 pages
978-90-277-1066-6 (ISBN)
Description
The role Hans Hahn played in the Vienna Circle has not always been sufficiently appreciated. It was important in several ways. In the ftrst place, Hahn belonged to the trio of the original planners of the Circle. As students at the University of Vienna and throughout the fIrst decade of this century, he and his friends, Philipp Frank and Otto Neurath, met more or less regularly to discuss philosophical questions. When Hahn accepted his fIrSt professorial position, at the University of Czernowitz in the north east of the Austrian empire, and the paths of the three friends parted, they decided to continue such informal discussions at some future time - perhaps in a somewhat larger group and with the cooperation of a philosopher from the university. Various events delayed the execution of the project. Drafted into the Austrian army during the first world war" Hahn was wounded on the Italian front. Toward the end of the war he accepted an offer from the University of Bonn extended in recognition of his remarkable 1 mathematical achievements. He remained in Bonn until the spring of 1921 when he returm:d to Vienna and a chair of mathe matics at his alma mater. There, in 1922, the Mach-Boltzmann professorship for the philosophy of the inductive sciences became vacant by the death of Adolf Stohr; and Hahn saw a chance to realize his and his friends' old plan.
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Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1980
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Publishing group
Springer
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
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XX, 142 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
265 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-277-1066-6 (9789027710666)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-009-8982-5
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Jan von Plato is a specialist in logic and history and philosophy of exact science. He has published twelve books on probability theory, proof theory, and the development of logic and foundational study, and over one hundred research articles. In 2018-24, he led a project funded by the European Research Council that resulted in eight books with materials drawing from Kurt Gödel's vast collection of manuscripts written in an obsolete German shorthand.
Content
I Superfluous Entities, or Occam's Razor (1930).- II The Significance of the Scientific World View, Especially for Mathematics and Physics (1930).- III Discussion about the Foundations of Mathematics (1930).- IV Empiricism, Mathematics, and Logic (1929).- V Reflections on Max Planck's Positivismus und reale Aussenwelt (?1931).- VI Review of Alfred Pringsheim, Vorlesungen über Zahlen- und Funktionenlehre, Vol. I, parts I and II, Leipzig and Berlin 1916 (1919).- VII The Crisis in Intuition (1933).- VIII Does the Infinite exist? (1934).- Bibliography of the Works of H. Hahn.