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Hans Reichenbach
Born in Hamburg, German Empire in 1891. Reichenbach devoted the majority of his life to the Philosophy of Science. Know as a leading philosopher and influential educator and proponent in the areas of science, education, and logical empiricism. He died in Los Angelos, California at the age of 61 in1953. -
Degree in Philosophy and Thesis
From the University of Erlangen, Reichenbach earned his degree in philosophy. There, he began his thesis on the theory of probability titled "The Concept of Probability for the Mathematical Representation of Reality". It was later released in 1916 with the assistance of Paul Hensel and Max Noether.(Murzi,2005) Murzi, Mauro. Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2005
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Publishes First Book
He began teaching as Privatdozent at Technische Hochschule Stuttgart in the year 1920. The years preceding from 1917 - 1920 he attended lectures by Albert Einstein on the Theory of Relativity in Berlin. This fascinated him into writing four books on the subject, his first titled, "The Theory of Relativity and A Priori Knowledge" criticizing the Kantian notion of synthetic a priori. -
Berlin Circle
In 1928, with the help of Kurt Greling and Walter Dubislav, founded the Berlin Circle first known as the society for empirical philosophy. The Berlin Circle collaborated with the Vienna Circle publishing their first journal, "knowledge". This continued until 1933 when he was forced to step down and emigrate to Turkey due to Adolf Hitler becoming Chancellor. (JSTOR, 2009) Wikipedia. 2019. JSTOR. 2009.
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Professor UCLA
After his time in Turkey and publishing of "The Theory of Probability", he moved to the United States and became a professor at the University of California, Los Angelos in the Philosophy Department. During the post-war period, he assisted in establishing UCLA as a leading philosophy department in the United States. His time there is when he published his most notable writings in 1944, 1947, and in 1951 to include his most famous, "The Rise of Scientific Philosophy". -
Reichenbach passes
During the Spring of 1953, Reichenbach passed away unexpectedly because of a heart attack. He was working on problems in the philosophy of time and on the nature of scientific laws. That work resulted in being published after his death in two separate books. Attached is a video link of some of Reichenbach's famous quotations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq2qynW1xHc
