15 Facts About Moritz Schlick

Moritz Schlick's father was Ernst Albert Schlick and his mother was Agnes Arndt.

Moritz Schlick studied physics at the University of Heidelberg, the University of Lausanne, and, ultimately, the University of Berlin under Max Planck.

Moritz Schlick explained this choice in his autobiography by saying that, despite his love for philosophy, he believed that only mathematical physics could help him obtain actual and exact knowledge.

Moritz Schlick's thesis was titled Uber die Reflexion des Lichts in einer inhomogenen Schicht.

Several essays about aesthetics followed, whereupon Moritz Schlick turned his attention to problems of epistemology, the philosophy of science, and more general questions about science.

Moritz Schlick published Raum und Zeit in der gegenwartigen Physik, which extended his earlier results by applying Poincare's geometric conventionalism to explain Einstein's adoption of a non-Euclidean geometry in the general theory of relativity.

Moritz Schlick displayed an unusual success in organizing talented individuals in the philosophical and scientific spheres.

When Moritz Schlick arrived in Vienna, he was invited to lead a group of scientists and philosophers who met regularly to discuss philosophical topics in the sciences.

Moritz Schlick had worked on his Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre between 1918 and 1925, and, though later developments in his philosophy were to make various contentions of his epistemology untenable, the General Theory is perhaps his greatest work in its acute reasoning against synthetic a priori knowledge.

Moritz Schlick distinguished between internal rules and application rules of language.

Between 1926 and 1930, Moritz Schlick labored to finish Fragen der Ethik, in which he surprised some of his fellow Circlists by including ethics as a viable branch of philosophy.

On 22 June 1936, Moritz Schlick was ascending the steps of the university for a class when he was confronted by a former student, Johann Nelbock, who killed Moritz Schlick with a pistol.

Moritz Schlick claimed that Schlick's anti-metaphysical philosophy had "interfered with his moral restraint".

The fact that Moritz Schlick was not Jewish did not seem to matter to propagandists capitalizing on the crime, who associated Moritz Schlick with Jewish members of the intelligentsia.

Moritz Schlick's enduring contribution to the world of philosophy is as the founder of logical positivism.