Our Method: Between Tractatus and Unified Science

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Our Method: Between Tractatus and Unified Science

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Tractatus had been introduced to the Schlick Circle by Reidemeister as early as 1924 and then read &quot;page by page&quot; at the Thursday meetings during the academic year 1925/26. Although Tractatus had a major influence on the logical empiricism as a whole, it was received with varying degrees of criticality. The aloofness and boundless admiration for Tractatus, which were then also transferred to its author, roughly corresponded to the later division of the Vienna Circle into left and right wings. For instance, although there was common agreement that the propositions of logic were tautologies, not everyone shared the transcendental conception of nature of logic. No later than 1928, Schlick commissioned Waismann with the task of writing a systematic and accessible exposition of Tractatus. This project, in the form of a book Logik, Sprache, Philosophie, underwent a dramatic development: Although the intention to present the ideas of Tractatus, albeit enriched by the verification criterion and the concept of hypothesis, was abandoned sometime in the autumn of 1931, Waismann worked on the project until the end of his days.The aim of the talk is to reconstruct what is the joint result of the collaboration between Wittgenstein, Waismann and Schlick and what Waismann called &quot;our method&quot;. I will argue that “our method” is not just an imprecise application of Tractatus or a confused derivative of Wittgenstein&apos;s transitive philosophy, but that, thanks to Waismann, it embodies the ambition to become a genuine methodology of science in the spirit of logical empiricism.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Our Method: Between Tractatus and Unified Science

Popis výsledku anglicky

Tractatus had been introduced to the Schlick Circle by Reidemeister as early as 1924 and then read &quot;page by page&quot; at the Thursday meetings during the academic year 1925/26. Although Tractatus had a major influence on the logical empiricism as a whole, it was received with varying degrees of criticality. The aloofness and boundless admiration for Tractatus, which were then also transferred to its author, roughly corresponded to the later division of the Vienna Circle into left and right wings. For instance, although there was common agreement that the propositions of logic were tautologies, not everyone shared the transcendental conception of nature of logic. No later than 1928, Schlick commissioned Waismann with the task of writing a systematic and accessible exposition of Tractatus. This project, in the form of a book Logik, Sprache, Philosophie, underwent a dramatic development: Although the intention to present the ideas of Tractatus, albeit enriched by the verification criterion and the concept of hypothesis, was abandoned sometime in the autumn of 1931, Waismann worked on the project until the end of his days.The aim of the talk is to reconstruct what is the joint result of the collaboration between Wittgenstein, Waismann and Schlick and what Waismann called &quot;our method&quot;. I will argue that “our method” is not just an imprecise application of Tractatus or a confused derivative of Wittgenstein&apos;s transitive philosophy, but that, thanks to Waismann, it embodies the ambition to become a genuine methodology of science in the spirit of logical empiricism.

Druh

O - Ostatní výsledky

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů