The Silver Age of Austrian Logic

Once again, Vienna is one of the capitals of logic research, more than 80 years after Kurt Gödel wrote down his incompleteness theorems. The Vienna Circle started the golden age of logic. Now, a new "silver age" has begun. Logic research in Austria is flourishing. Several world-class research groups have emerged; Vienna has become an international centre of logics. This is not just coincidence. In the "golden age" of logic, the first decades of the twentieth century, many of the best ideas in this research area were developed in Vienna - by philosophers and logicians like Kurt Gödel, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Popper or Rudolf Carnap.