Anatol Rapoport vs. Otto Neurath
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Anatol Rapoport
1911 – 2007
Anatol Borisovich Rapoport was an American mathematical psychologist. He contributed to general systems theory, to mathematical biology and to the mathematical modeling of social interaction and stochastic models of contagion.
"The first attempts to consider the behavior of so-called "random neural nets" in a systematic way have led to a series of problems concerned with relations betw…"
Otto Neurath
1882 – 1945
Otto Karl Wilhelm Neurath was an Austrian-born philosopher of science, sociologist, and political economist. Considered "one of the neglected geniuses of the twentieth century", Neurath, among other things, invented the ISOTYPE method of pictorial statistics and an innovator in museum practice. Before he fled his native country in 1934, Neurath was one of the leading figures of the Vienna Circle.
"The members of the Vienna Circle are working out a ‘Logical Empiricism’. Following Ernst Mach and Poincaré, but above all Russell and Wittgenstein, all the scie…"
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