The Vienna Circle: Context, Profile, and Development

Círculo de Viena: fisicalismo e a utopia da ciência unificada

“…No entanto, há muitos que não se desesperam, mas, em vista da situação sociológica presente, encaram com esperança os eventos por vir" (HAHN;CARNAP, 1979CARNAP, [1929, p. 100-101). Já percebendo certa perseguição por parte dos nacional-socialistas e prevendo que o problema ganharia intensidade na década seguinte (STADLER, 2007), o Manifesto continua: "naturalmente, nem todo adepto da concepção de mundo científica será um lutador. Alguns, contentes com a solidão, levarão uma vida reclusa nas encostas gélidas da lógica (…)" (HAHN;CARNAP, 1979CARNAP, [1929, p. 101).…”

The Dynamics of Positivism in the Study of Public Administration

“…LP built on the classical positivism of Comte and the empiricism of Mill but was more emphatically guided by the “the scientific world conception” inspired by Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Albert Einstein, as noted in the manifesto document of the Vienna Circle (Stadler, 2007, pp. 13-16).…”

“…Others such as Laudan (1977) have pointed out the overlap between Popper’s thought and LE. Popper was at the periphery of the Vienna Circle, and many core members did not consider his ideas as antithetical to their own (Stadler, 2007, p. 25), but Otto Neurath labeled him the “the official opposition” (as cited in Thornton, 2013). Moving on, the importance of replacing the verification criterion of meaning with a falsifiability criterion of demarcation should not be overstated.…”

“…LP’s downturn was pushed along by the dissolution of the Ernst Mach Society and the death of Hans Hahn in 1934, the murder of Moritz Schlick in 1936, and the death of Otto Neurath in 1945 (Friedman, 2006; Stadler, 2007). Furthermore, the revolutionary social program of the logical positivist movement, its advocacy of socialism, and its identification with “red Vienna” were abandoned by its progenitors when they migrated to America (Friedman, 2006, p. xi).…”

“…Furthermore, the revolutionary social program of the logical positivist movement, its advocacy of socialism, and its identification with “red Vienna” were abandoned by its progenitors when they migrated to America (Friedman, 2006, p. xi). The internationalization of LE simultaneously diluted its core and stimulated disintegration (Stadler, 2007, p. 17). As a result of these factors, by the late 1950s, LP reached “a period of stasis,” at which point it succumbed to the assault of critical rationalist and postpositivist philosophers such as Popper, Quine, Hanson, Kuhn, Fayerabend, and Rorty.…”