Béla Juhos

Béla Juhos (born November 22, 1901 , Vienna ; † May 27, 1971 there ) was a Hungarian - Austrian philosopher and member of the Vienna Circle .

Life

Juhos was born on November 22nd, 1901 in Vienna and came from a small noble Hungarian family. His father was a Hungarian businessman and entrepreneur with iron wholesalers in Vienna and Budapest . Juhos attended elementary school in Budapest and grew up speaking Hungarian. In 1909 he came back to Vienna, learned the German language and graduated from secondary school.

Juhos studied mathematics , physics and philosophy at the University of Vienna . In 1926 he did his doctorate with Moritz Schlick with a dissertation on the subject of "To what extent did Schopenhauer live up to Kant 's ethics ?" From the beginning of the Schlick Circle in 1924 until its dissolution in 1936 after Schlick's murder, Juhos took part in the meetings of the Vienna Circle.

Due to his economic independence, Juhos was able to spend the Second World War as a private scholar in Vienna - interrupted by his military service 1942–1944.

Together with Victor Kraft, Juhos was the only member of the Vienna Circle who stayed in Vienna during the Second World War and continued to work here after the war. In 1948 Juhos qualified as a private lecturer in theoretical philosophy with Victor Kraft with the thesis "Knowledge and its achievement" . In 1955 Juhos received the title of associate professor, but did not hold a permanent position at the Philosophical Institute, so that his sphere of activity remained limited.

Juhos died on May 27, 1971 in Vienna.

Works (selection)

• To what extent did Schopenhauer live up to the Kantian ethics? Phil.Diss. Vienna 1926.
• On the foundations of the certainty of pure thought , Vienna 1928.
• Forms of knowledge in natural and human sciences , Leipzig: Pan Verlag 1940.
• "Empirical sentences and logical constants", in: The Journal of Unified Science 8 / 5-6, 1940, pp. 354-360.
• Knowledge and its achievement , Vienna: Springer Verlag 1950.
• Elements of the new logic , Frankfurt-Vienna 1954.
• The value event and its recording , Meisenheim am Glan: Verlag Anton Hain 1956.
• Which conceptual forms are available for empirical description? , in: Problems of the philosophy of science. Festschrift for Victor Kraft. Vienna: Springer-Verlag 1960.
• The epistemological foundations of classical physics (together with Hubert Schleichert ), Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 1963.
• The epistemological foundations of modern physics , Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 1967.
• Probability as a form of knowledge (together with Wolfgang Katzenberger), Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 1970.
• "Three sources of knowledge", in: Journal for philosophical research 26/3, 1970, pp. 335–347.
• "Geometry and Probability", in: Journal for Philosophical Research 25/4, 1971, pp. 500-510.
• "Forms of Positivism", in: Journal for General Philosophy of Science 2/1, 1971, pp. 27-62.
• Selected Papers on Epistemology and Physics , ed. and with an introductory essay by Gerhard Frey, Dordrecht-Boston: Reidel 1976. (Contains a complete bibliography of Juho's works.)

literature

• Stadler, Friedrich , Studies on the Vienna Circle. Origin, Development and Effect of Logical Empiricism in Context . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-518-58207-0 . 2nd edition by Springer 2015. - Biobibliographical representation by Juhos: 706–711.
• Kraft, Victor , "Obituary for Béla Juhos", in: Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie I / 2, 1971, pp. 163–173 (with bibliography, pp. 314 to 316 and pp. 338–339).
• Schleichert, Hubert, »Thinker without effect. Béla Juhos - a typical fate «, in: Conceptus 1971, pp. 5–12.
• Reiter, Wolfgang, “Who was Bela Juhos? A Biographical Approach «, in: Maté, András; Rédei, Miklós; Stadler, Friedrich (Ed.) The Vienna Circle in Hungary , Vienna / Berlin: Springer 2011, pp. 65–98.

Web links

• Entry on Béla Juhos in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• List of works by Béla Juhos on PhilPapers .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reiter 2011, 65.
2. ↑ Reiter 2011, 68–69.