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Brian McGuinness

5 Publications

Friedrich Waismann

Brian McGuinness (ed)

Springer - Berlin

2011

Friedrich Waismann (1896–1959) was one of the most gifted students and collaborators of Moritz Schlick. Accepted as a discussion partner by Wittgenstein from 1927 on, he functioned as spokesman for the latter’s ideas in the Schlick Circle, until Wittgenstein’s contact with this most faithful interpreter was broken off in 1935 and not renewed when exile took Waismann to Cambridge.

Reminiscences of the Vienna circle and the mathematical colloquium

Karl Menger

Springer - Berlin

1994

Moritz Schlick

Brian McGuinness (ed)

Springer - Berlin

1985

The idea for this issue arose during a gathering of scholars to com­ memorate the hundredth anniversary of Moritz Schlick (1882-1936), the philosopher from Germany whose influence gave Austria its most characteristic philosophical voice between the two world wars. He was cut off, tragically, in his prime and while he escaped the exile that awaited most of those who thought like him, he was unable (sadly for philosophy) to continue to steer their thoughts in his own direction and he even lost some of the credit for work already done.

Wittgenstein and contemporary philosophy

Brian McGuinness, Aldo Gargani (eds)

ETS - Pisa

1984

The infinite in mathematics

Felix Kaufmann

Springer - Berlin

1978

5 Publications