Moritz Schlick | With David Edmonds, Maria Carla Galavotti, and Cheryl Misak
Moritz Schlick was the informal leader of the Vienna Circle, a group of philosophers, mathematicians, and logicians who exerted huge influence on the course of twentieth-century philosophy. While not as well known as some other members of the Circle, Schlick was nonetheless producing important work that ranged from the philosophy of physics and art to ethics and epistemology. The Vienna Circle believed scientific philosophy could help stem the rise of fascism, putting them at odds with prevailing attitudes and, in 1936, this resulted in Schlick’s murder. We explore his work, his role in the Vienna Circle, and what might have been had Schlick lived longer.
Speakers
• 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗘𝗱𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗱𝘀, Author, The Murder of Professor Schlick & Distinguished Research Fellow, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
• 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗮𝘃𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗶, Emerita Professor of Philosophy of Science, University of Bologna
• 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗹 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗸, Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto
Chair
• 𝗝𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗿𝗰𝗵, Fellow, Forum for Philosophy & Associate Professor of Philosophy, LSE
Co-sponsored by the 𝗥𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝘆
Recorded on 7 December 2021
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Overall an excellent conversation, well worth watching. I was in Vienna recently bought a book by Schlick from an antiquarian book shop and liked what I read (I had been more familiar with Neurath and Carnap). It wasn't true (post Sellars and Hegel) but it was well and sympathetically presented. That led me to inquire into his biography which led me to Edmonds' book which I have ordered. I would like to quibble. I was astounded that the interviewer was under the illusion that the Nazis and fascism were somehow opposed to Christianity. It is a complicated tale. In Spain, Croatia, and Belgium fascism was fully endorsed and backed by the catholic church. Mussolini was first frowned upon by the church, then signed a concordat and was endorsed. Most German nazis were believing Christians. They took holy oaths and believed in Christ. The holocaust was in many ways the culminating Christian solution to the "Jewish problem." See the excellent book by Jewish philosopher Emil Fackenheim, To Mend the World. I think Christianity has been very good at distancing itself from the truth. I think many get confused by 'national socialism' into taking that odd name to imply that it was some kind of secular socialism. The word really was code for "against the rich and the owners"---a la mode in the post WWI crisis in Germany and a way to attract the rabble. Fascism then in Europe, and now in the US, is the ideology of Christians, and not an ideology opposed to Christianity. Despite this lacuna by one participant---generally excellent.
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Completely true.The Church again failed, as can be seen in Austria, Croatia and Germany. When will this ant-humanitarian institution be dissolved and fade into nothingness?
I speculate that if Schlick had lived, Quine would have had more opposition from Schlick than he in fact had from Carnap, who was always a friendly foe. In particular I imagine Schlick putting pressure on Quine's holism. But this is counterfactual history of philosophy.
Probability does make more sense to me specially because human logic and reasoning did not have much to do with the existence of universe, and as such any outcome is possible in the future.
'fascism' not exactly