Died 1953-04-09.
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Hans Reichenbach
Hans Reichenbach was a leading philosopher of science, educator, and proponent of logical empiricism. He founded the Gesellschaft für empirische Philosophie in Berlin in 1928, also known as the "Berlin Circle". Carl Gustav Hempel, Richard von Mises, David Hilbert and Kurt Grelling all became members of the Berlin Circle.
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Born 26 September 1891 · Died 9 April 1953 · Q170147
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1953· 2 entries
“If along the path of truth, success (which was often near-failure unnoticed) is subjected to the same scrutiny and desire for improvement as failure, we may find ourselves in closer proximity to trees.”
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1951· 1 entry
Authored The Rise of Scientific Philosophy, his most popular book
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1944· 1 entry
Elements of Symbolic Logic in 1947, and The Rise of Scientific Philosophy (his most popular book) in 1951
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1933· 1 entry
Reichenbach was immediately dismissed from his appointment at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin under the government's so called "Race Laws" due to his Jewish ancestry
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1930· 2 entries
And Rudolf Carnap began editing the journal Erkenntnis
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Reichenbach and Rudolf Carnap became editors of the journal Erkenntnis
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1928· 1 entry
Reichenbach founded the so-called "Berlin Circle" (German: Die Gesellschaft für empirische Philosophie; English: Society for Empirical Philosophy)
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1926· 1 entry
With the help of Albert Einstein, Max Planck and Max von Laue, Reichenbach became assistant professor in the physics department of the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin
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1920· 1 entry
Reichenbach began teaching at the Technische Hochschule Stuttgart as Privatdozent
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1919· 2 entries
Stopped participating in political groups
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His text Student und Sozialismus: mit einem Anhang: Programm der Sozialistischen Studentenpartei was published by Hermann Schüller, an activist with the League for Proletarian Culture
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1917· 1 entry
Was removed from active duty, due to an illness, and returned to Berlin
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1915· 2 entries
And his PhD dissertation on the theory of probability, titled Der Begriff der Wahrscheinlichkeit für die mathematische Darstellung der Wirklichkeit (The Concept of Probability for the Mathematical Representation of Reali
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Studied at University of Erlangen–Nuremberg (1915).
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1911· 1 entry
Studied at University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart (1910–1911).
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1891· 2 entries
Born 1891-09-26.
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“Reichenbach's Theory of Tense and its Application to English”
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