New Directory Entry - Patricia Grill

Two weeks prior to our research colloquium, Patricia Grill presented a lecture on Olga Hahn-Neurath and also contributed a new entry on her to our Directory of Women Philosophers and Scientists. If you would like to learn more about Olga Hahn-Neurath’s work, you are invited to consult the directory entry here: https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/project/directory-of-women-philosophers/hahn-neurath-olga-1882-1937/

Olga Hahn-Neurath (born 1882) was an Austrian philosopher and logician whose work developed under particularly difficult personal circumstances. In 1904, she lost her eyesight, an event that profoundly shaped her life but did not end her academic activity. Hahn-Neurath continued to work on philosophical and logical problems and remained intellectually active within contemporary debates.

She completed her doctorate in philosophy at the University of Vienna with a dissertation in logic. Her research was later acknowledged as making an important contribution to early symbolic logic. In 1912, she married the philosopher Otto Neurath, which situated her within a dense intellectual network associated with early twentieth-century Viennese philosophy.

After losing her sight, Hahn-Neurath relied on close intellectual collaborations. Of particular importance was her friendship with Rose Rand, who regularly read philosophical texts aloud to her and thereby supported her continued engagement with philosophical research. […]