The Vienna Circle in Czechoslovakia

Radek Schuster is an assistant professor and the deputy head in the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Arts at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. He focuses on the philosophy and history of science, chiefly the legacy of the Vienna Circle; analytic philosophy and philosophy of language, mainly the work of Wittgenstein; and philosophy of technology, particularly artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. In these three fields of study, respectively, he has conducted his research as a visiting scholar at the University of Vienna / the Institute Vienna Circle (AKTION: 5/2011, 5/2016 and 4-9/2017); the University of Bergen / the Wittgenstein Archives (Norway Grants: 9/2015 and 6/2016); and Indiana University / the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering (Fulbright: 9/2016-2/2017). His hobbies include paradoxes and illusions of all kinds.

Chapter 1. How Philosophers in the Czech Lands Broke Ground for the Vienna Circle.- Chapter 2. Why Czech Positivism Could Not Be Absorbed By Logical Positivism.- Chapter 3. Philipp Frank's Civic and Intellectual Life in Prague: Investments in Loyalty.- Chapter 4. Scientific World Conception on Stage: The Prague Meeting of the German Physicists and Mathematicians.- Chapter 5. Rudolf Carnap's Inferentialism.- Chapter 6. Minimum Dwellings: Otto Neurath and Karel Teige on Architecture.- Chapter 7. Arnost Kolman's Critique of Mathematical Fetishism.- Chapter 8. Igor Hrusovský on Social Sciences.