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Group of philosophers and scientists who gathered round Hans Reichenbach
in late 1920s. Among its members were H. Reichenbach, K. Grelling, C. G.
Hempel, D. Hilbert, R. von Mises. Berlin Circle -- its name was Die
Gesellschaft für empirische Philosophie (Society for empirical
philosophy) -- joined up with the Vienna Circle; together they published
the journal Erkenntnis edit by R. Carnap and H. Reichenbach, and
organized several congresses on scientific philosophy, the first of
which held in Prague in 1929.
Members of Berlin Circle were particularly active in analyzing
contemporary physics, especially the theory of relativity, and in
developing the frequency interpretation of the probability. After the
rise of Nazism, several of them emigrated from Germany. Reichenbach
moved to Turkey in 1933 and to USA in 1938; Hempel to Belgium in 1934
and to USA in 1939; Grelling was killed in a concentration camp. Hence
the Berlin Circle was dispersed.
See also Hempel, Reichenbach, Logical positivism.
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