!!!Waismann, Friedrich

Waismann, Friedrich, b. Vienna, March 21, 1896, d. Oxford 
(United Kingdom), Nov. 4, 1959, philosopher. Studied mathematics 
(under H.  Hahn) and physics and later philosophy (under M.  Schlick) 
in Vienna. Co-founder of the  Vienna Circle, 1929-1936 assistant to M. 
Schlick, propagated L.  Wittgenstein's philosophy. 1937 emigrated to 
England. Until 1939 lecturer at the faculty of Moral Sciences at 
Cambridge University and then Professor of Mathematical Philosophy 
(later Philosophy of Science) at Oxford. Originally a strict 
neopositivist, later more under the influence of Wittgenstein.

!Works
Logische Analyse des Wahrscheinlichkeitsbegriffs, 1930; Die 
Natur des Reduzibilitaetsaxioms, 1935; Ueber den Begriff der 
Identitaet, 1936; Einfuehrung in das mathematische Denken, 1936; Ist 
die Logik eine deduktive Theorie?, 1938; The Relevance of Psychology 
to Logic, 1938; Von der Natur eines philosophischen Problems, 1939; 
Logik, Sprache, Philosophie, 1976; Gespraeche, in: L. Wittgenstein 
Werkausgabe, vol. 3, 1989.


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