Walter Dubislav

Walter Dubislav (born September 20, 1895 in Berlin , †  September 17, 1937 in Prague ) was a German scientific theorist .

Life

After studying mathematics (u. A. With David Hilbert ) and the philosophy Dubislav was in Berlin with a thesis in 1922 contributions to the study of the definition and the evidence from the standpoint of mathematical logic doctorate . In 1928 he became a private lecturer in philosophy, mathematics and natural sciences at the TU Berlin and from 1931 an associate professor . In 1936 he emigrated to Prague.

He was a co-founder of the Berlin Society for Empirical Philosophy and was friends with Theodor W. Adorno .

Dubislav endeavored to establish a logical and epistemological foundation for mathematics and physics , based on Bernard Bolzano . Dubislav represents a formalistic version of Frege's theory of definition . Definitions are therefore substitution rules for characters, i.e. H. arbitrary agreements on the use of characters within a calculus .

Fonts

• with Karl Wilhelm Clauberg : Systematic dictionary of philosophy. Felix Meiner, Leipzig 1923
• About the definition. Weiss, Berlin 1926. 2nd improved edition 1927 - under the title Die Definition 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition, Meiner, Leipzig 1931; 4th ed., Unchanged. Reprinted with an introduction by Wilhelm K. Essler . Meiner, Hamburg 1981 ISBN 3-7873-0513-0 .
• About the so-called analytical and synthetic judgments. Weiss, Berlin 1926.
• The Friesian doctrine of justification. Presentation and criticism. E. Mattig, Dömitz 1926.
• On the doctrine of the so-called creative definitions. Fuldaer Aktiendruckerei, Fulda 1928.
• About the so-called subject in mathematics. In: Annual report of the German Mathematicians Association, Vol. 37, pp. 27–48. Leipzig 1928.
• On the methodology of criticism . H. Beyer & Sons, Langensalza 1929.
• Joseph Petzoldt in memoriam . In: Annals of Philosophy and Philosophical Criticism , Vol. 8, No. 1 (December 1929), pp. 289-295.
• On the question of university reform. Vocational training and driver selection . In: The literary world , Vol. 6, No. 29/30 (1930), p. 7 f.
• The philosophy of mathematics in the present. (Philosophical research reports 13) Junker & Dünnhaupt, Berlin 1932.
• Natural philosophy. (Philosophische Grundrisse booklet 2) Junker & Dünnhaupt Berlin 1933. New edition ed. v. Esther von Krosigk at VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken 2007 ( Classic Edition ) ISBN 3-8364-1795-2 .

literature

• Albert Menne :  Dubislav, Walter Ernst Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 145 ( digitized version ).
• Nikolay Milkov: Walter Dubislav's Philosophy of Science and Mathematics. In: HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science. Vol. 6, No. 1 (spring 2016), pp. 96–116, doi : 10.1086 / 685544 .
• Nikolay Milkov: On Walter Dubislav. In: History and Philosophy of Logic. Vol. 36, No. 2 (2015), pp. 147–161, doi : 10.1080 / 01445340.2014.962247 , online (uses the materials collected by Eckart Menzler-Trott for the biography of Dubislav).

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Dubislav in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ From: Theodor W. Adorno: Philosophical Terminology. Volume 1. (p. 10, line 3)