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This volume takes a reflective position with respect to the conference
series "Foundations of the Formal Sciences" (FotFS) and asks:
* What are the Formal Sciences?
* Can we develop a theoretical classification of the sciences that
juxtaposes the formal sciences to the natural sciences, social sciences,
and humanities? Can we do this solely by identifying common methodological
features?
* Can we identify changes of the notion of formal sciences over time?
How were the areas that we now conceived as the "Foundations of the Formal
Sciences" classified throughout history?

Investigating the...

A full-length discussion of the Berlin Group, this book also re-examines the role of the Vienna Circle in the development of the philosophy of science. Covers the work of Walter Dubislav, Paul Oppenheim, Kurt Grelling and Jacob Friedrich Fries.

The Berlin Group for scientific philosophy was active between 1928 and 1933 and was closely related to the Vienna Circle. In 1930, the leaders of the two Groups, Hans Reichenbach and Rudolf Carnap, launched the journal Erkenntnis. However, between the Berlin Group and the Vienna Circle, there was not only close relatedness but also significant difference. Above all, while the Berlin Group explored philosophical problems of the actual practice of science, the Vienna Circle, closely following Wittgenstein, was more interested in problems of the language of science. The book includes first...