Berlin Circle

The Berlin Circle (German: die Berliner Gruppe) was a group that maintained logical empiricist views about philosophy.

History

Berlin Circle was created in the late 1920s by Hans Reichenbach, Kurt Grelling and Walter Dubislav and composed of philosophers and scientists such as Carl Gustav Hempel, David Hilbert and Richard von Mises. Its original name was Die Gesellschaft für empirische Philosophie, which in English may be translated as "the society for empirical philosophy". Together with the Vienna Circle, they published the journal Erkenntnis ("Knowledge") edited by Rudolf Carnap and Reichenbach, and organized several congresses and colloquia concerning the philosophy of science, the first of which was held in Prague in 1929.^[1]

The Berlin Circle had much in common with the Vienna Circle, but the philosophies of the circles differed on a few subjects, such as

concentration camp. A younger member of the Berlin Circle or Berlin School to leave Germany was Olaf Helmer who joined the RAND Corporation and played an important role in the development of the Delphi method used for predicting future trends, and other early forms of social technology.^[2]

After emigrating to various countries the group effectively came to an end, but not without influencing a wide range of philosophers of the 20th century, its method having been especially influential on

futurology.^{[citation needed}

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References

^ "Berlin Circle" entry in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
^ Berlin School of Logical Empiricism by Nicholas Rescher (Springer, 2006).

[1] "Berlin Circle" entry in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

[2] Berlin School of Logical Empiricism by Nicholas Rescher (Springer, 2006).

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