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Philosophical Papers (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1977)
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Philosophical Papers (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1977)
Series: Vienna Circle Collection, 8
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Friedrich Waismann was born in Vienna in 1896 and lived there until
the time of the Anschluss in 1938. From then until his death in
1959 he lived in England; this, apart from a brief period at
Cambridge early on, was almost wholly at Oxford, \,Vhere he held
the posts, first, or reader in the philosophy of mathematics and
then of reader in the philosophy of science. He was of Jewish
descent -his father being Russian, his mother German. He studied
mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna and attended
the lec- tures of Hahn. Beginning his career as a teacher of
mathematics he soon be- came an unofficial assistant to Moritz
Schlick. It was Schlick's concern to see that the new philosophical
ideas developed by Wittgenstein from the time of his return to
philosophy in the later 1920s were made public that de- termined
the subsequent shape of Waismann's activities. Until the out- break
of the war in 1939 his main task was the preparation of a book in
which Wittgenstein's thought was to be systematically expounded.
Be- tween 1927 and 1935 this project was carried on in close
personal conjunc- tion with Wittgenstein. A first version of the
planned book, Logik. Sprache. Philosophie seems to have been
completed by 1931. A very differ- ent version came to England with
Waismann in 1938. It finally appeared, in an English translation,
as Principles of Linguistic Philosophy.
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