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Report on the “International Congress for the Philosophy of Science” in Zurich, Switzerland, August 23–28, 1954

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Max Rieser
Max Rieser*
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The “International Congress for the Philosophy of Science” was held in the week of August 23–28, 1954 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. The Institute enjoys a very high reputation as one of the foremost schools of its kind in the world. It was at this Institute that Albert Einstein taught at the beginning of his academic career. The Congress was arranged as the Second Congress of the “Union Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences” (U.I.P.S.) which has its permanent seat in Paris, France. The first Congress of the U.I.P.S. was held in Paris in 1949. It was then that the “International Forum of Zurich” was asked to organize five years later the Congress of Zurich.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , October 1955 , pp. 300 - 308
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1955

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1 Feodosseev did not mention that Lenin's theory of “partisan objectivity” was obviously at the basis of his statements about truth, the propagation and suppression of evil theories etc. Georg Lukacs (Budapest) says in his article “Kunst und objektive Wahrheit” (Art and Objective Truth): “He (Lenin) conceives the objectivism of dialectical materialism rightly and deeply as an objectivism of practice, of partisanship. Materialism, Lenin states, includes … so to speak an element of partisanship in obligating itself to join, in assessing the value of an event, directly and openly the standpoint of a certain social group”. (Deutsche Zeitschrift fuer Philosophie, 2nd Year, No. 1 (1954) page 116—Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin (East).

2 He published some time ago in Vienna a book: “Der Wiener Kreis” Der Ursprung des Neopositivismus.—Springer Verlag, Wien 1950.