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Rose Rand , also Rozalia Rand , ( June 14, 1903 in Lemberg , Galicia - July 28, 1980 in Princeton, NJ , USA) was an Austro-American logician and philosopher . She was a member of the Vienna Circle .

Life

Rose Rand was born in Lviv and attended school there. After her family moved to Vienna in 1914 , she attended the Polish grammar school there, and from 1920 secondary schools in Währing . In 1924 she graduated from the Realgymnasium in the second district of Vienna and then enrolled to study philosophy at the University of Vienna .

She studied with Moritz Schlick , Karl Bühler , Robert Reininger , Heinrich Gomperz and Rudolf Carnap and finished her studies in 1937 with a dissertation on the Polish logician Tadeusz Kotarbiński with the title “T. Kotarbiński's Philosophy ”(originally with Schlick as doctoral supervisor, after his murder with Reininger).

As a doctoral student, Rand took part in the meetings of the Vienna Circle , especially in the years 1930–1935, and took minutes of these meetings. These minutes are the only surviving sources of the discussions in the Schlick circle in 1930–33.

Rand lived under the most difficult circumstances in Vienna between the wars. To secure her livelihood, she gave lectures at the Volkshochschule Ottakring (Volksheim) in 1933/34 as well as tutoring for students and translated logical texts from Polish for the Springer publishing house . From 1930 to 1937 she also conducted research at the psychiatric clinic with Otto Pötzl and Heinz Hartmann .

In 1939 Rand emigrated to England as a Jewish stateless person , initially to London . There she worked as a nurse and tried to resume her philosophical work. As a result, she was admitted to the Faculty of Moral Science in Cambridge as a distinguished foreigner , where she attended lectures by Ludwig Wittgenstein, among others . In 1943 she lost her status and had to work in a metal factory until 1948. From 1947 she held evening courses on psychology and German at Luton Technical College and Tottenham Technical College.

In 1954, Rand moved to the United States . Between 1955 and 1959 she taught math, ancient philosophy and logic and was a research fellow at Chicago University, Indiana University and Notre Dame University. In 1959 she moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts and then to Princeton, New Jersey . In the following years she earned her living with various research grants, mainly for her translation work.

Rose Rand died on July 28, 1980 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

The Rose Rand estate was acquired by the University of Pittsburgh . It contains, among other things, her research work, documents, the minutes of the discussions in the Vienna Circle and 1,600 letters, among others to Otto Neurath , Ludwig Wittgenstein and Alfred Tarski .

Fonts (selection)

  • "The logic of the different types of sentences", ( Przeglad Filozoficzny 39/4, Warsaw 1936).
  • "T. Kotarbiński's philosophy based on his main work:› Elements of the theory of knowledge, logic and methodology of the sciences ‹", in: Knowledge 7, 1938, pp. 92–120.
  • "Logic of the claim sets", in: International Journal of theory of law . Neue Episode 1, 1939, pp. 308-322.
  • "The Logic of Demand Sentences", in: Synthesis 14/1962, 237-154.
  • "Preface and Translation of Prolegomena to Three-Valued Logic by Tadeusz Kotarbiński", in: The Polish Review 13/1968., Pp. 3-22.
  • "About the Notions of 'real' and 'unreal' on the Basis of Questioning Mental Disorders", in: Acta Psychologica (submitted).

literature

  • Hamacher-Hermes, Adelheid, "Rose Rand: a Woman in Logic", in: Friedrich Stadler (Ed.), The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism. Re-Evaluation and Future Perspectives. Dordrecht-Boston-London: Kluwer 2003, pp. 365-380.
  • Iven, Mathias, Rand and Wittgenstein. Attempt at approximation (Wittgenstein Studies 9), Frankfurt / Berlin: Peter Lang 2004.
  • Korotin, Ilse, "'... approved subject to revocation which is permissible at any time'. Women philosophers at the University of Vienna until 1938", in: Philosophy and National Socialism. Messages from the Institute for Science and Art 2/92, pp. 25–32.
  • Ilse Korotin : "'Oh Austria ... this is really a chapter of its own'. On the trail of female philosophizing between 'Scientific Weltaufstellung' and 'Deutscher Sendung'", in: Die Philosophin 3/1991, pp. 26–50.
  • Korotin, Ilse, "On icy Firnen. On the intellectual tradition of women", in: Friedrich Stadler (Hrsg.), Wissenschaft als Kultur. Austria's contribution to modernity , Vienna-New York: Springer 1997, pp. 291–306.
  • Lorini, Giuseppe, "Deontica in Rose Rand", in: Rivista internazionale di filosofia del diritto 74/1997, 197-251.
  • 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, Dordrecht 2015. - Biobibliography on margin: 771–772.
  • Use Korotin: Rand, Rozalia. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 605-606.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stadler 1997, 269.
  2. ↑ Stadler 1997, 268–70, 771. The protocols were created in 1937–38 under the most difficult of conditions at the request of Neurath, who wrote Rand from exile in Holland.
personal data
SURNAME Edge, rose
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rand, Rozalia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-American logician and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv , Galicia
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1980
Place of death Princeton, NJ , USA