Includes bibliographical references.

Ernst Mach's knowledge and error and Karl Popper's the logic of scientific discovery -- Three German scientists : Justus von Liebig, Heinrich Hertz and Albert Einstein and two American philosophers, Charles S. Peirce and Clarence Irving Lewis -- The construction of a logic of hypotheses in English, French and Italian thinkers between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Evolutionary epistemology in Vienna from Ernst Mach to Karl Popper -- The Vienna fin de si�ecle against Freud -- Karl B�uhler and Heinrich Gomperz : Karl Popper's two Viennese masters -- Carl Menger and Karl Popper : the shortcomings and errors of historicism -- Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich A. von Hayek and Karl Popper : four Viennese in defense of methodological individualism -- Hans Kelsen and Karl Popper : two Viennese critics of Plato's totalitarianism -- The destiny of historical materialism and dialectical materialism in fin de si�ecle Vienna.

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