Schlick Moritz Introduction (4 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Binding tight, sturdy, and square; text very good+. Shallow crease to wraps at rear. NOT ex-lib. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First American Edition, translated from the third German edition. Oxford UP, 1920; same date on title and copyright pages, no additional printings indicated; x, [1], 89pp. Publisher's half-sheet advertisement laid-in at front Front and rear fly-leaves have small tears (2" or less, likely from silverfish abrasions) over the hinges, starting from the bottom edge, however binding remains square, sturdy and fully intact; very mild rubbing at extremities, else brown cloth boards VG, gilt titling remains bright and bold; slight discoloration to edges of page block, most likely from very gentle silverfish abrasion; no other instances of possible silverfish damage; no detectable odors or possible allergic triggers. No dust jacket, if issued. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First American Edition. Xi, 89 Pp. A Philosophical Rather Than Mathematical Introduction, Prepared With Some Specific Advice From Einstein.Exceptionally Well Preserved, No Fading Or Marks, No Wear But Traces Of Rubbing At Corners, Gilt Still Brilliant. This Example With The Original Purchase Receipt For This Book From The Oxford University Press, Dated June 22, 1920. …

First edition. 8vo. viii, 193, [1], [2, publisher?s advertisements] pp. Original printed wrappers, edges untrimmed (some occasional pencilled marginal annotations, extremities very lightly rubbed and creased, faint spotting to edges, notwithstanding a very good copy overall). Wien, Julius Springer. 1935. An interesting peripheral figure of the Vienna Circle, Josef Schächter was ordained as a rabbi in 1926 and taught Talmud at the Hebräische Pädagogium in Vienna. He studied philosophy under Mortiz Schlick at the University of Vienna, completing a dissertation on Nicolai Hartmann's critical realist metaphysics under Schlick's supervision in 1931, and regularly participated in the Vienna Circle's weekly discussion meetings at the Institute of Mathematics on Boltzmanngasse 5. Schächter's main work, Prolegomena to a Critical Grammar was edited by Schlick, who also contributed a short introduction. It was published in Schriften zur wissenschaftlichen Weltauffassung, an important monograph series that included the first appearance Karl Popper's The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934). The work 'stands in splendid isolation as the best specimen of the logical positivist analysis of natural language' (Paul Foulkes, Foreword to the English Edition, 1971).  It's object is to develop a universal grammar and the prefatory remarks of both Schächter and Schlick acknowledge the influence of Wittgenstein, although the aim and approach differ from Wittgenstein?s Philosophische Grammatik. The Prolegomena not only explains the general, philosophical principles to be followed, but in the light of these proceeds to cover the entire range of conventional grammar. Schächter's involvement with the Vienna Circle began to wane after Schlick's murder by his former student Johann Nelböck in 1936. He emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1938 and continued to write 'mainly in Hebrew about the connections between philosophy, religion, and world views, employing a logical analysis in the spirit of Schlick, Waismann, and Wittgenstein' (Stadler, The Vienna Circle, p. 484). …