ABSTRACT
Female logical empiricists and sympathetic critics made significant contributions to the central positions of that movement. Women’s contributions to philosophy and logic have often fallen into obscurity despite their quality because of a combination of the sexism of their contemporaries, institutional discrimination hindering their professional advancement, and the prejudice of historians. For the reputation of the logicians here considered, all these factors are relevant, even though they were well-regarded by their immediate colleagues. (Being forced into exile or suffering persecution did not help.) To redress this imbalance, this chapter looks at the contributions from women within the Vienna Circle and in movements connected to the logical empiricists, especially in England and in the Lvov-Warsaw School.
