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Austrian Philosophy and its Institutions: Remarks on the Philosophical Society of the University of Vienna (1888-1938)

Denis Fisette
This study examines the place of the Philosophical Society of the University of Vienna (1888-1938) in the evolution of the history of philosophy in Austria, up to the establishment of the Vienna Circle in 1929. I will examine three aspects of the relationship between the Austrian members of the Vienna Circle and the Philosophical Society which has been emphasized by several historians of the Vienna Circle: The first aspect concerns the theory of a first Vienna Circle formed mainly by H. Hahn, P. Frank, and O. Neurath; the second aspect is the contention that the missing link between the Vienna Circle and the Bolzano tradition in Austria is Alois Höfler, a student of Brentano and Meinong; I will finally examine the link they established between the annexation of the Philosophical Society to the Kant-Gesellschaft in 1927 and the founding of the Vienna Circle in 1929. I will argue that this institution played a key role in the history of philosophy in Austria and is partly responsible for the formation of the Vienna Circle
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A version of this text served as my presidential address at the 2011 Annual Congress of the Canadian Philosophical Association in Fredericton. Many aspects of my research on the Philosophical Society of the University of Vienna were the subject of conferences delivered at the Universities of Luxemburg, Rio de Janeiro, Grenoble, and Ottawa. A French version of this paper has been published in the journal Philosophiques (vol. 38, no 1, 2011, pp. 71-101). I wish to thank all of those who took part in the discussions, Kevin Mulligan for his comments on a previous version of this text, and Denis Courville who is responsible for the English translation. I wish to thank as well the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for the financial support provided for this research, and Ulf Höfer and Thomas Binder for their assistance in the Franz
Deutsche! Wann werdet ihr von einer Verirrung, welche euch euren Nachbarn nur ungenießbar und lächerlich macht, endlich zurückehren? B. Bolzano Und auch dieser Ruf des edlen Philosophen verdient, noch in unsere Zeit gehört zu werden! J. C. Kreibig
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