Otto Neurath (1882-1945) was one of the key figures of the Vienna Circle; his wide-ranging
interests included philosophy of science, economics, sociology, pictorial statistics, and visual
education. At least as important as his theoretical work is his work as an educator and
organizer of science. As a direct continuation of the Gesammelte Schriften edition of all of
Neurath`s writings published during his lifetime, this project begins the publication of
material from Neurath`s estate. This project will produce a commented facsimile edition of
those parts of Neuraths estate that are located in the Vienna Circle Archive at the Noord-
Hollands Archief in Haarlem. This material comprises the bulk of Neuraths philosophical
estate, as well as those parts of the correspondence that cover his philosophical network.
The approach includes editorial methods, methods of the history of philosophy of science,
and digital humanities. The main research tool is the database Virtual Archive of Logical
Empiricism (VALEP), which will be extended by a new read-only platform VALEP+.
This project makes large parts of the Neurath legacy publicly accessible for the first time in
annotated form. On the level of digital humanities, it extends the existing VALEP platform to
VALEP+, which will make this tool available to a much wider audience.
The researchers involved can be divided into two groups. First, the editorial team consisting
of Lucas Baccarat (University of Vienna), Christian Damböck (University of Vienna), Johannes
Friedl (University of Graz), Ulf Höfer (University of Graz), Silke Körber (Humboldt University),
Christoph Limbeck-Lilienau (University of Vienna), Elisabeth Nemeth (University of Vienna),
Günther Sander (LMU Munich), Friedrich Stadler (University of Vienna), Adam Tamas Tuboly
(Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Thomas Uebel (University of Manchester). Second, the DH
team, which includes Christian Damböck (University of Vienna, Coordination), Catherine
Schlienger (University of Vienna, Software Engineering), Helena Müller (Kunsthistorisches
Museum Wien, UX Design), and Lucas Baccarat (University of Vienna, Data Processing). The
requested funds will be used exclusively for the DH part of this project.