Edgar Zilsel

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Edgar Zilsel (August 11, 1891 in Vienna – March 11, 1944 in Oakland, United States) was an Austrian historian and philosopher of science.

Although linked to the Vienna Circle, Zilsel wrote criticizing the views of Circle members. As a Jewish Marxist he found employment difficult in Austria and was forced to flee for the United States in after the Anschluss in 1938. He committed suicide there in 1944.

Zilsel proposed The Zilsel Thesis as an explanation for the rise of Western science.

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