Friedrich Waismann

Austrian mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1896–1959) Friedrich WaismannBorn(1896-03-21)March 21, 1896Vienna, Austria-HungaryDiedNovember 4, 1959(1959-11-04) (aged 63)Oxford, EnglandEducationEducationUniversity of Vienna (PhD, 1936)Doctoral advisorRobert Reininger [de]Moritz SchlickPhilosophical workSchoolAnalytic philosophyLogical positivismInstitutionsUniversity of ViennaUniversity of CambridgeUniversity of OxfordMain interestsPhilosophy of mathematicsPhilosophy of languagePhilosophy of scienceNotable ideasOpen texture Part of a series onLogical positivism Main article Vienna Circle Logical empiricism Topics Origins and context Intellectual background Empiricism Positivism Pragmatism Neo-Kantianism Analytic philosophy The debate between scientific realism and anti-realism Circles and movements Vienna Circle Berlin Circle Lwów–Warsaw school Unity of science movement International Encyclopedia of Unified Science Precursors David Hume Auguste Comte Ernst Mach Gottlob Frege Early Wittgenstein Charles Sanders Peirce William James Bertrand Russell Core ideas Verification principle Analytic–synthetic distinction Physicalism Unity of science Reductionism Critique of metaph