ABSTRACT
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the philosopher Hans Reichenbach led a group of like-minded colleagues in Berlin that must count as an independent point of origin of the movement of logical empiricism. Like the Vienna Circle with whom they cooperated on numerous occasions, their concern was to develop a philosophy of science adequate to the latest advances in science itself. Differences of philosophical background and interests, however, resulted in a pronouncedly realist conception with distinct emphases in their account of scientific knowledge. This chapter traces the scientific development of such philosophers as Reichenbach, Hempel, Grelling, and Dubislav in the interconnected setting of the Berlin Group and its scientific context.
