Béla Juhos (22 November 1901,

Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...

– 27 May 1971,

) was a Hungarian-Austrian

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

and member of the

Vienna Circle The Vienna Circle () of logical empiricism was a group of elite philosophers and scientists drawn from the natural and social sciences, logic and mathematics who met regularly from 1924 to 1936 at the University of Vienna, chaired by Moritz Sc ...

Life

Juhos was born on 22 November 1901 in Vienna into a Hungarian family of low nobility (Hungarian citizenship until 1945). His father was a Hungarian tradesman and entrepreneur owning an iron wholesale in Vienna and

Budapest Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...

. Juhos attended primary school in Budapest and spoke Hungarian as a child. In 1909 he moved to Vienna, where he learned German and completed ''

Realgymnasium ''Gymnasium'' (; German plural: ''Gymnasien''), in the German education system, is the most advanced and highest of the three types of German secondary schools, the others being ''Hauptschule'' (lowest) and ''Realschule'' (middle). ''Gymnas ...

'' in 1920. Juhos studied

mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

physics Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge whi ...

and

philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (, ) is a public university, public research university in Vienna, Austria. Founded by Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria, Duke Rudolph IV in 1365, it is the oldest university in the German-speaking world and among the largest ...

. In 1926 he completed his studies with a dissertation under

Moritz Schlick Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick (; ; 14 April 1882 – 22 June 1936) was a German philosopher, physicist, and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle. He was murdered by a former student, Johann Nelböck, in 1936. Early ...

with the title "To What Extent did

Schopenhauer Arthur Schopenhauer ( ; ; 22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher. He is known for his 1818 work '' The World as Will and Representation'' (expanded in 1844), which characterizes the phenomenal world as the manife ...

Do Justice to

Kant Immanuel Kant (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, et ...

ian

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?" (''"Inwieweit ist Schopenhauer der Kant’schen Ethik gerecht geworden?"''). From the beginning of the Schlick Circle in 1924 until its dissolution in 1936 (after the murder of Schlick) Juhos participated in the meetings of the

. Due to his economic independence Juhos could stay in Vienna as a private scholar during the

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– except for the period of his military service in 1942–1944. Together with

Victor Kraft Victor Kraft (; 4 July 1880 – 3 January 1975) was an Austrian philosopher. He is best known for being a member of the Vienna Circle. Early life and education Kraft studied philosophy, geography and history at the University of Vienna. He par ...

Juhos was the only member of the Vienna Circle to remain in Vienna during the Second World War and to continue to work at the University of Vienna after the war.Reiter 2011, 68-69. In 1948 he submitted his Habilitation thesis (''venia legendi'') with the title "Cognition and its Achievements" (''"Die Erkenntnis und ihre Leistung"'') under Victor Kraft and became ''Privatdozent'' (private lecturer). In 1955, Juhos was appointed associate professor, but he did not obtain a permanent position at the Faculty of Philosophy. For this reason, his influence in research and teaching remained limited. Juhos died on 27 May 1971 in Vienna.

Works (selection)

* ''Inwieweit ist Schopenhauer der Kantischen Ethik gerecht geworden?'' Phil.Diss. Vienna 1926. * ''Über die Grundlagen der Gewißheit des reinen Denkens'', Vienna 1928. * ''Erkenntnisformen in Natur- und Geisteswissenschaften'', Leipzig: Pan Verlag 1940. *"Empirische Sätze und logische Konstanten", in: ''The Journal of Unified Science'' 8/5-6, 1940, 354-360. * ''Die Erkenntnis und ihre Leistung'', Vienna: Springer 1950. * ''Elemente der neuen Logik'', Frankfurt-Vienna 1954. * ''Das Wertgeschehen und seine Erfassung'', Meisenheim am Glan: Verlag Anton Hain 1956. * ''Die erkenntnislogische Grundlagen der klassischen Physik'' (together with

Hubert Schleichert Hubert Schleichert (30 July 1935 in Vienna �13 September 2020 in Munich) was an Austrian emeritus philosopher (from Vienna). His works have emphasized political philosophy, theory of Logical argument, argument and non-European philosophy, espec ...

), Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 1963. * ''Die erkenntnislogischen Grundlagen der modernen Physik'', Berlin: Duncker&Humblot 1967. * ''Wahrscheinlichkeit als Erkenntnisform'' (together with Wolfgang Katzenberger), Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 1970. *"Drei Quellen der Erkenntnis", in: ''Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung'' 26/3, 1970, 335-347. *"Geometrie und Wahrscheinlichkeit", in: ''Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung'' 25/4, 1971, 500-510. *"Formen des Positivismus", in: ''Journal for General Philosophy of Science'' 2/1, 1971, 27-62. * ''Selected Papers on Epistemology and Physics'', ed. with an introductory essay by

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, Dordrecht-Boston: Reidel 1976. (Contains a complete bibliography of Juhos‘ works.)

Bibliography

* Stadler, Friedrich. ''The Vienna Circle. Studies in the Origins, Development, and Influence of Logical Empiricism.'' New York: Springer, 2001. – 2nd Edition: Dordrecht: Springer, 2015. – Biobibliographical presentation of Juhos: 655-660. * Kraft, Victor, "Nachruf auf Béla Juhos", in: '' Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie'' I/2, 1971, 163-173 (including bibliography, 314 bis 316 and 338-339). (German) * Schleichert, Hubert, "Denker ohne Wirkung. Béla Juhos – ein typisches Schicksal", in: ''Conceptus'' 1971, 5-12. (German) * Reiter, Wolfgang, "Wer war Bela Juhos? Eine biographische Annäherung", in: Maté, András; Rédei, Miklós; Stadler, Friedrich (eds.) The Vienna Circle in Hungary, Vienna/Berlin: Springer 2011, 65-98. (German)

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