Hans Reichenbach

Hans Reichenbach
Hans Reichenbach
Born	September 26, 1891; Hamburg, German Empire
Died	April 9, 1953 (aged 61); Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Education
Education	Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin; University of Göttingen; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; University of Erlangen (PhD, 1916); Technische Hochschule Stuttgart (Dr. phil. hab., 1920)
Theses	Der Begriff der Wahrscheinlichkeit für die mathematische Darstellung der Wirklichkeit (The Concept of Probability for the Mathematical Representation of Reality) (1916); The Theory of Relativity and A Priori Knowledge (Relativitätstheorie und Erkenntnis Apriori) (1920);
Doctoral advisors	Paul Hensel, Max Noether (PhD advisors)
Other advisors	Max Born, Ernst Cassirer, Albert Einstein, David Hilbert, Edmund Husserl, Max Planck, Arnold Sommerfeld
Philosophical work
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic; Berlin Circle; Logical empiricism
Institutions	Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin; Istanbul University; UCLA
Doctoral students	Carl Gustav Hempel, Hilary Putnam, Wesley Salmon
Main interests	Philosophy of science
Notable ideas	List Probabilistic justification/reasoning; Philosophical implications of the theory of relativity; Philosophical foundations of quantum mechanics; The "context of discovery"/"context of justification" distinction; Relativized a priori (the fallible set of constitutive principles underlying knowledge); Axioms of connection (empirical laws) vs. axioms of coordination (constitutive principles) ;

Hans Reichenbach (/ˈraɪxənbɑːx/; German: [ˈʁaɪçənbax]; September 26, 1891 – April 9, 1953) was a leading philosopher of science, educator, and proponent of logical empiricism. He founded the Gesellschaft für empirische Philosophie (Society for Empirical Philosophy) in Berlin in 1928, also known as the "Berlin Circle". Carl Gustav Hempel, Richard von Mises, David Hilbert and Kurt Grelling all became members of the Berlin Circle.

In 1930, Reichenbach and Rudolf Carnap became editors of the journal Erkenntnis. He also made lasting contributions to the study of empiricism based on a theory of probability; the logic and the philosophy of mathematics; space, time, and relativity theory; analysis of probabilistic reasoning; and quantum mechanics. In 1951, he authored The Rise of Scientific Philosophy, his most popular book.