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The so-called ‘Vienna Circle of the scientific world-conception’ attempts to create an atmosphere free of metaphysics, along the lines of Mach, Poincare, Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein and others in order to further scientific work in all fields by means of logical analysis.1 It would be less misleading to speak of a ‘Vienna Circle of Physicalism’ because Vorld’ is not a term of scientific language, and because world -conception [Weltauffassung] is often taken to be interchangeable with world-view [Weltanschauung]. All the representatives of this Circle agree that there is no ‘philosophy’ existing side by side with the sciences as a discipline with its own special statements; all meaningful statements are contained in the sciences.
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At this point the author refers in a footnote to six volumes of the Schriften zur wissenschaftlichen Weltauffassung series, listed on p. 51, note 1 above; the journal Erkenntnis; and two pamphlets published by the Verein Ernst Mach: Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung: Der Wiener Kreis (Vienna: A. Wolf, 1929) by Rudolf Carnap, Hans Hahn, Otto Neurath (translated as The Scientific Conception of the World: The Vienna Circle‘in (Neurath 1973b ), pp. 299–318); and Hans Hahn,’Ueberflussige Wesenheiten (Occams RasiermesserY ( Vienna: A. Wolf, 1930 ).
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Neurath, O. (1983). Sociology in the Framework of Physicalism. In: Cohen, R.S., Neurath, M. (eds) Philosophical Papers 1913–1946. Vienna Circle Collection, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6995-7_6
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