Hans Reichenbach was a leading philosopher of science, educator, and proponent of logical empiricism.
22 Facts About Hans Reichenbach
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Hans Reichenbach was influential in the areas of science, education, and of logical empiricism.
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Hans Reichenbach made lasting contributions to the study of empiricism based on a theory of probability; the logic and the philosophy of mathematics; space, time, and relativity theory; analysis of probabilistic reasoning; and quantum mechanics.
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Hans Reichenbach married Selma Menzel, a school mistress, who came from a long line of Protestant professionals which went back to the Reformation.
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Hans Reichenbach attended the founding conference of the Freideutsche Jugend umbrella group at Hoher Meissner in 1913.
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Hans Reichenbach published articles about the university reform, the freedom of research, and against anti-Semitic infiltrations in student organizations.
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Hans Reichenbach wrote the Platform of the Socialist Student Party, Berlin which was published in 1918.
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Hans Reichenbach worked with Karl Wittfogel, Alexander Schwab and his other brother Herman at this time.
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Hans Reichenbach received a degree in philosophy from the University of Erlangen in 1915 and his PhD dissertation on the theory of probability, titled Der Begriff der Wahrscheinlichkeit fur die mathematische Darstellung der Wirklichkeit and supervised by Paul Hensel and Max Noether, was published in 1916.
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Hans Reichenbach served during World War I on the Russian front, in the German army radio troops.
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In 1920 Hans Reichenbach began teaching at the Technische Hochschule Stuttgart as Privatdozent.
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Hans Reichenbach subsequently published Axiomatization of the Theory of Relativity, From Copernicus to Einstein and The Philosophy of Space and Time, the last stating the logical positivist view on the theory of relativity.
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In 1926, with the help of Albert Einstein, Max Planck and Max von Laue, Hans Reichenbach became assistant professor in the physics department of the University of Berlin.
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Hans Reichenbach gained notice for his methods of teaching, as he was easily approached and his courses were open to discussion and debate.
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In 1928, Hans Reichenbach founded the so-called "Berlin Circle".
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Hans Reichenbach himself did not practise Judaism, and his mother was a German Protestant, but he nevertheless suffered problems.
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Hans Reichenbach thereupon emigrated to Turkey, where he headed the Department of Philosophy at Istanbul University.
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Hans Reichenbach introduced interdisciplinary seminars and courses on scientific subjects, and in 1935 he published The Theory of Probability.
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In 1938, with the help of Charles W Morris, Reichenbach moved to the United States to take up a professorship at the University of California, Los Angeles in its Philosophy Department.
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Hans Reichenbach helped establish UCLA as a leading philosophy department in the United States in the post-war period.
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Hans Reichenbach died unexpectedly of a heart attack on April 9,1953.
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Hans Reichenbach was living in Los Angeles at the time, and had been working on problems in the philosophy of time and on the nature of scientific laws.