Rose Rand

Rose Rand (born Rozalia Rand, ; June 14, 1903 – July 28, 1980) was an Austrian-American logician and philosopher. She was a member of the Vienna Circle.

Life and work

Rose (Rozalia) Rand was born in Lemberg in the Austrian crown land of Galicia (today, Lviv, Ukraine). After her family moved to Austria she studied at the Polish Gymnasium in Vienna.

As a PhD candidate, Rand participated regularly in the Vienna Circle discussions, and kept records of these discussions, she was most active in the Vienna Circle from 1930 to 1935.

In 1937 her doctoral thesis on Tadeusz Kotarbiński's philosophy was approved and she completed her PhD viva.

Rand, unemployed and of Jewish descent, suffered great difficulties in pre-World War II Vienna. In 1939, with the assistance of Susan Stebbing, she finally emigrated to London as a Jew without nationality.