An Unknown Side of Moritz Schlick’s Intellectual Biography: The Reviews for the “Vierteljahrschrift Für Wissenschaftliche Philosophie und Soziologie” (1911–1916)

Abstract

Schlick's intellectual biography constitutes a very interesting issue for the scholarship of the history of logical empiricism. The aim of this paper is to consider the almost unknown reviews Schlick published in the Vierteljahrsschrift fuer wissenschaftliche Philosophie und Soziologie. Schlick's activity as contributor to an influential German philosophical journal offers not only an exhaustive survey of his philosophical and scientific opinions, but also the opportunity to trace Schlick's intellectual development within both the historical context and the philosophical debates of his time (e.g., concerning Poincare's conventionalism and the Neokantianism of the Marburg School).