Moritz Schlick: Critical Edition of the Complete Works & Intellectual Biography

The project applied for is the second phase of the long-term research project entitled "Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Moritz Schlick & Intellectual Biography". The research project is to be carried out as part of an international joint collaboration of the Institute Vienna Circle in Vienna, the Forschungsstelle und Dokumentationszentrum für österreichische Philosophie (Research and Documentation Center for Austrian Philosophy, FDÖP) in Graz and the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Rostock in Germany. Professor Dr. Hans Jürgen Wendel (University of Rostock) has submitted a separate application for funding to the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The development of 20th century philosophy and philosophy of science has been influenced sustainably by Logical Empiricism - a movement for which the members of the Vienna Circle did groundbreaking work during the interwar period. The philosopher and physicist Moritz Schlick (1882-1936) was founder of the Circle and one of its leading figures. Schlick`s innovative contributions to modern philosophy and philosophy of science range from natural philosophy, epistemology, and linguistic philosophy to ethics and aesthetics within the context of the Vienna Circle and in interaction with the works of contemporaneans such as Einstein, Russell, and Wittgenstein. The goal of this research project consists in continuing the critical editing of Schlick`s collected writings, four of the five volumes of section I of the edition (published works: monographs and essays) have already been prepared for printing during a three years start-up phase funded by the FWF. This second project period applied for shall be dedicated to completing section I of the edition (published works), to preparing for publication several volumes of so far unpublished writings from Schlick`s estate, as well as to continuing and finishing the first intellectual biography of Moritz Schlick and to prepare his scientific correspondence for publication. The aim of this international joint initiative consists in making the entire work of the founder of the Vienna Circle and one of the most influential philosophers accessible to the German-speaking reader, setting thus the grounds for differentiated study and providing an innovative and lasting contribution to prospective systematic research.

The project applied for is the second phase of the long-term research project entitled "Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Moritz Schlick & Intellectual Biography". The research project is to be carried out as part of an international joint collaboration of the Institute Vienna Circle in Vienna, the Forschungsstelle und Dokumentationszentrum für österreichische Philosophie (Research and Documentation Center for Austrian Philosophy, FDÖP) in Graz and the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Rostock in Germany. Professor Dr. Hans Jürgen Wendel (University of Rostock) has submitted a separate application for funding to the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The development of 20th century philosophy and philosophy of science has been influenced sustainably by Logical Empiricism - a movement for which the members of the Vienna Circle did groundbreaking work during the interwar period. The philosopher and physicist Moritz Schlick (1882-1936) was founder of the Circle and one of its leading figures. Schlick`s innovative contributions to modern philosophy and philosophy of science range from natural philosophy, epistemology, and linguistic philosophy to ethics and aesthetics within the context of the Vienna Circle and in interaction with the works of contemporaneans such as Einstein, Russell, and Wittgenstein. The goal of this research project consists in continuing the critical editing of Schlick`s collected writings, four of the five volumes of section I of the edition (published works: monographs and essays) have already been prepared for printing during a three years start-up phase funded by the FWF. This second project period applied for shall be dedicated to completing section I of the edition (published works), to preparing for publication several volumes of so far unpublished writings from Schlick`s estate, as well as to continuing and finishing the first intellectual biography of Moritz Schlick and to prepare his scientific correspondence for publication. The aim of this international joint initiative consists in making the entire work of the founder of the Vienna Circle and one of the most influential philosophers accessible to the German-speaking reader, setting thus the grounds for differentiated study and providing an innovative and lasting contribution to prospective systematic research.