Vienna Circle of Logical Empiricism was a group of elite philosophers and scientists drawn from the natural and social sciences, logic and mathematics who met regularly from 1924 to 1936 at the University of Vienna, chaired by Moritz Schlick.
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Philosophical position of the Vienna Circle was called logical empiricism, logical positivism or neopositivism.
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The Vienna Circle was pluralistic and committed to the ideals of the Enlightenment.
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Vienna Circle appeared in public with the publication of various book series – Schriften zur wissenschaftlichen Weltauffassung, Einheitswissenschaft (Unified Science) and the journal Erkenntnis – and the organization of international conferences in Prague; Konigsberg (today known as Kaliningrad); Paris; Copenhagen; Cambridge, UK, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Pre-history of the Vienna Circle began with meetings on the philosophy of science and epistemology from 1908 on, promoted by Philipp Frank, Hans Hahn and Otto Neurath.
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Immediately after Schlick's arrival in Vienna Circle, he organized discussions with the mathematicians around Hahn.
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In 1929 the Vienna Circle made its first public appearance under this name – invented by Neurath – with the publication of its manifesto Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung.
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The partition into "members" and "those sympathetic to the Vienna Circle" produced in the manifesto from 1929 is representative only of a specific moment in the development of the Circle.
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Vienna Circle was very active in advertising their new philosophical ideas.
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Between 1928 and 1937, the Vienna Circle published ten books in a collection named Schriften zur wissenschaftlichen Weltauffassung, edited by Schlick and Frank.
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The Vienna Circle published a collection, called Einheitswissenschaft, edited by Rudolf Carnap, Philipp Frank, Hans Hahn, Otto Neurath, Jørgen Jørgensen (after Hahn's death) and Charles W Morris (from 1938), whose aim was to present a unified vision of science.
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Vienna Circle compares it to an art like lyrical poetry; the metaphysician works with the medium of the theoretical; he confuses art with science, attitude towards life with knowledge, and thus produces an unsatisfactory and inadequate work.
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