Gustav Bergmann

Bergmann was a member of the Vienna Circle, the group of philosophers and scientists that shaped logical positivism, and he later developed his own program of 'ideal-language' analytic metaphysics in the United States. Born into a Viennese Jewish family, he emigrated after the Nazi annexation of Austria and taught for decades at the University of Iowa. His work helped carry the rigor of logical empiricism into postwar American philosophy.