Vienna Circle and Religion

Esther Ramharter is Associate Professor for Philosophy at the University of Vienna. She holds a doctorate degree in philosophy and in mathematics. Her areas of expertise include philosophy of logic and of mathematics, philosophy of religion, and Wittgenstein-research.

• Editorial.- Part I: The Vienna Circle and Religion.- Chapter 1. Carnap’s Fundamental Philosophical Commitment: From Religious Origins to Kantian Non-Cognitivism, 1911-21 (A. W. Carus).- Chapter 2. Carnap’s Non-Cognitivism and His Views on Religion. Against the Background of the Herbartian Philosophy of His Grandfather Friedrich Wilhelm Dörpfeld (Christian Damböck).- Chapter 3. The Place of Religion. An Open Question in Schlick’s Philosophy of Culture (Massimo Ferrari).- Chapter 4. The “Continuous Line from the Formulations of the Magicians to the Formulations of the Sociologists”. Otto Neurath on the Anthropology of Magic and Religion (Marco Brusotti).- Chapter 5. “God Never Does Mathematics” – Hans Hahn on Religion (Julia Schäfer).- Chapter 6. A Rabbi Among the Apostates? Josef Schächter and Religion in the Vienna Circle (Malachi Hacohen).- Chapter 7. Josef Schächter on Religion and the Philosophy of Language: Preferring Beginnings to Ends (Esther Ramharter).- Chapter 8. Philipp Frank and the “Conference for Science, Philosophy and Religion”, 1940-1968 (Friedrich Stadler).- Chapter 9. Kurt Gödel’s Dogmatic Theology (Tim Lethen).- Chapter 10. Kurt Gödel’s Reception of Charles Hartshorne’s Ontological Proof (Annika Kanckos and Tim Lethen).- Part II: General Part.- Chapter 11. The Vienna Circle in China: The Story of Tscha Hung (Yi Jiang).- Chapter 12. Tolerance, Disagreement, and the Practical Dimension of Philosophy Warren Hagstrom’s Interview with Carnap (Adam Tamas Tuboly).- Part III: Reviews.- Chapter 13. Johannes Feichtinger/Franz L. Fillafer/Jan Surman (Eds.), The Worlds of Positivism. A Global Intellectual History, 1770-1930. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 2018 (Robert Frühstückl).- Chapter 14. Donata Romizi, Dem wissenschaftlichen Determinismus auf der Spur. Freiburg/München: Verlag Karl Alber 2019 (Marij van Strien).- Chapter 15. Bernt Österman (Ed.), “Skriv så ofta du kan”: Brevväxlingen mellan Georg Henrik von Wright och Eino Kaila 1937 – 1958 [“Write as often as You Can”: The Correspondence between Georg Henrik von Wright and Eino Kaila 1937 – 1958.]. Helsingfors: Svenska Litteratursällskapet 2020 (Sami Pihlström).- Index.