Philosophical Papers
Waismann, Friedrich / McGuinness, B. F.![Philosophical Papers](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/110/11041994/CHSBZCOP0311041994.jpg)
Friedrich Waismann was born in Vienna in 1896 and lived there until the time of the Anschluss in 1938. From then until his death in 1959 he lived in England, this, apart from a brief period at Cambridge early on, was almost wholly at Oxford, \, Vhere he held the posts, first, or reader in the philosophy of mathematics and then of reader in the philosophy of science. He was of Jewish descent -his father being Russian, his mother German. He stud...