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Born December 10, 1882 • Vienna • Austria
Died December 22, 1945 (aged 63) • Oxford • England
Founder “International Encyclopedia of Unified Science” • Unity of Science movement
Subjects Of Study logical positivism
Rudolf Carnap
Rudolf Carnap
German-American philosopher
Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte
French philosopher
Carl Gustav Hempel
American philosopher
Hans Reichenbach
American philosopher
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
British philosopher
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist
Karl Popper
Karl Popper
British philosopher
Hilary Putnam
Hilary Putnam
American philosopher
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
British philosopher
A.J. Ayer
A.J. Ayer
British philosopher
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon
English philosopher and scientist
Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish philosopher and writer
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
John Venn
John Venn
English logician and philosopher
Jean Baudrillard
French author and philosopher
Moritz Schlick
German philosopher
Whewell, plaster cast of bust by Edward Hodges Baily, 1851; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Whewell
British philosopher and historian

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