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Philipp Frank

Overview

Philipp Frank (Austrian German: [fraŋk]; March 20, 1884 – July 21, 1966) was an Austrian-American physicist, mathematician and philosopher of the early-to-mid 20th century. He was a logical positivist, and a member of the Vienna Circle. He was influenced by Mach and was one of the Machists criticised by Lenin in Materialism and Empirio-criticism.

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Philosophers who discussed Philipp Frank

• Paul Feyerabend
• Henryk Hiż

Related ideas

• Philosophy
• Logical positivism
• Harvard University
• Mathematician
• Vienna Circle
• Physicist
• Socialism
• Austria-Hungary
• The New York Times
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• University of Vienna
• Czechoslovakia
• Ludwig Boltzmann
• Ernst Mach
• Vienna
• Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Verso Books
• Materialism and Empirio-criticism
• Albert Einstein

Place in the tradition

Part of Verificationism.

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