VALEP (Virtual Archive of Logical Empiricism)

The Institute Vienna Circle’s virtual archive VALEP (Virtual Archive of Logical Empiricism), launched in 2021, currently contains over 200,000 pages of archival material and nearly 14,600 documents (individual manuscripts, letters, articles, books, photographs, etc.) as well as electronic editions such as the edition of Rudolf Carnap’s diaries. VALEP is growing rapidly and by October 2024 has been subsidized with approximately 243,000 Euros (including funds from the Vienna Circle Society and from the FWF projects P31716, P34887, PUD 31, PUD 39).

Explore highlights …

… in the archive tree:

Rudolf Carnap papers from the University of Pittsburgh

Rudolf Carnap papers from the UCLA

Otto Neurath papers from the Noord-Hollands Archief

Moritz Schlick papers from the Noord-Hollands Archief

Ludwig Wittgenstein papers from Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge

Wolfgang Stegmüller papers from Brenner Archiv Innsbruck

Franz Roh papers from the Getty Research Center LA

W.V.O. Quine correspondence from Harvard University

Unity of Science Movement Collection from the University of Chicago

… in the document window:

Rudolf Carnap’s diaries

Rudolf Carnap and Otto Neurath, correspondence

Rudolf Carnap, scientific correspondence 1920-1935

Hans-Joachim Dahms (ed.), Franz Roh 1890-1965. Eine Kollektivbiografie

Getting help

VALEP Wiki

Some how-to video’s (already a bit outdated)

Getting access
If you would like access to the internal material in VALEP, please send an email with the subject line “VALEP account request” to valep-admin.ivc@univie.ac.at. The body of the email should describe the purpose for which you wish to use VALEP. It is also required that you are either a member or associate of the IVC, or affiliated with a research institution that is affiliated or shares research interests with the IVC. In the latter case, your email address should be provided by your research institution. We will evaluate each request and reserve the right to decline any request.