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During the early 1930s, the Vienna Circle dispersed, mainly because of political upheaval and the deaths of Hahn and Schlick.

The most prominent proponents of logical positivism emigrated to the United Kingdom and the United States, where they influenced American philosophy considerably.

Until the 1950s, logical positivism was the leading school in the philosophy of science.

Ultimately, it failed to solve many of the problems with which it was centrally concerned, and after the Second World War, its doctrines increasingly came under attack by thinkers such as Nelson Goodman, Willard Van Orman Quine, J. L. Austin, Peter Strawson, Hilary Putnam, and Richard Rorty.