Scientific Philosophy: Origins and Development

Editorial. Articles: Scientific Philosophy - Origins and Developments. Empiricism in the Vienna Circle and in the Berlin Society for Scientific Philosophy; C.G. Hempel. Logical Empiricsm and the Uniqueness of the Schlick Seminar: a Personal Experience with Consequences; A. Naess. Ludwig's Apple Tree: On the Philosophical Relations between Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle; J. Hintikka. From the Vienna Circle to Harvard Square: the Americanization of the European World Conception; G. Holton. The Cultural Meaning of Aufbau; P. Galison. The Vienna Circle in France (1935-1937); A. Soulez. Marks and Probabilities: Two Ways to find Causal Structure; N. Cartwright. From Logical Empiricism to Radical Probabilism; R. Jeffrey. Why the Distinction between Analytic and Synthetic Statements? H. Lauener. Carnap and Reichenbach on Probability with Neurath the Winner; K. Lehrer. The Synthesis of Logicism and Formalism in Carnap's Logical Syntax of Language; T. Oberdan. A New Critique of Freud's Theory of Dreams; A. Drünbaum. Documentation. Background Study. Research Report. Reviews. Activities of the Institut `Wiener Kreis'. Index.