Arne Naess

dogmas and problems of empiricism

Friedrich Stadler

pp. 11-31

in: Juha Manninen, Friedrich Stadler (eds), The Vienna circle in the Nordic countries, Berlin, Springer, 2010

Abstract

Arne Dekke Eide Naess was born on January 27, 1912 in Oslo. After a long and successful life he passed away on January 12, 2009 in Oslo as the most renowned Norwegian philosopher, where he was honoured with a state funeral. He was one of the most important public figures in Norway and in his later years became known all over the world as a pioneer of the ecological movement. Given this publicity in recent decades his earlier life was forgotten or obscured in a sense — especially his student years in Paris, Vienna and Oslo before the outbreak of World War II, when he attended the famous Vienna Circle around Moritz Schlick during a stay in Vienna 1934–36. Here he wrote his dissertation Erkenntnis und wissenschaftliches Verhalten (Knowledge and Scientific Behaviour) which was published in Oslo by the Norwegian Academy of Science in 1936.

Cited authors

Schlick Moritz

Naess Arne