On Physicalism
摘要
This paper was written in 1937 by Josef Schächter und Heinrich Melzer—who like Schächter was a student of Schlick and died in the Second World War—; it was almost simultaneously published in Synthese 64 (1985), 359–374, in English and in Zurück zu Schlick. Eine Neubewertung von Werk und Wirkung, ed. by Brian McGuinness, Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Wien 1985, 92–103, in German. Schlick and Melzer describe a physicalism which they claim corresponds to Schlick’s view (and the view of the Vienna Circle in general) and which amounts to saying that “certain correspondences between our experiences and physical events render our science possible and make it a system of propositions that are intersensually and interpersonally testable”.