Kurt Grelling

German logician and philosopher (1886–1942) Kurt GrellingKurt Grelling at work in his study c. 1934Born(1886-03-02)2 March 1886Berlin, German EmpireDiedSeptember 1942Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied PolandEducationEducationUniversity of Göttingen (PhD, 1910)ThesisDie Axiome der Arithmetik mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Beziehungen zur Mengenlehre (The Axioms of Arithmetic with Particular Regard to their Relation to Set Theory) (1910)Doctoral advisorDavid HilbertPhilosophical workEra20th-century philosophyRegionWestern philosophySchoolAnalytic philosophyBerlin CircleMain interestsPhilosophy of science, logic, axiomatic set theoryNotable ideasGrelling–Nelson paradox Part of a series onLogical positivism Main article Vienna Circle Logical empiricism Topics Origins and context Intellectual background Empiricism Positivism Pragmatism Neo-Kantianism Analytic philosophy The debate between scientific realism and anti-realism Circles and movements Vienna Circle Berlin Circle Lwów–Warsaw school Unity of science movement International Encyclopedia of Unified Science Precursors David Hume Auguste Comte Ernst Mach Gottlob Frege Early Wittgenstein Charles Sanders Peirce William