Hans Reichenbach, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hans Reichenbach

German–American philosopher

Date of Birth: 26-Sep-1891

Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany

Date of Death: 09-Apr-1953

Profession: physicist, university teacher, philosopher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Hans Reichenbach (September 26, 1891 – April 9, 1953) was a leading philosopher of science, educator, and proponent of logical empiricism.
He was influential in the areas of science, education, and of logical empiricism.
He founded the Gesellschaft für empirische Philosophie (Society for Empirical Philosophy) in Berlin in 1928, also known as the “Berlin Circle”.
Carl Gustav Hempel, Richard von Mises, David Hilbert and Kurt Grelling all became members of the Berlin Circle.
He authored The Rise of Scientific Philosophy.
In 1930, Reichenbach and Rudolf Carnap became editors of the journal Erkenntnis (Knowledge).
He also made lasting contributions to the study of empiricism based on a theory of probability; the logic and the philosophy of mathematics; space, time, and relativity theory; analysis of probabilistic reasoning; and quantum mechanics.