1904 – 1978
Henry Mehlberg (1904–1978) was a Polish-American philosopher of science associated with the logical empiricist tradition. He made significant contributions to the philosophy of time, scientific epistemology, and the foundations of physics, and is best known for his rigorous treatment of time's arrow and the reach of scientific knowledge.
Authored The Reach of Science (1958), a systematic account of the scope and limits of scientific knowledge
Developed an influential analysis of the direction of time and the physical basis of time's arrow
Contributed to the epistemology of probability and inductive inference in scientific contexts
Posthumously published Time, Causality, and the Quantum Theory, extending his analysis to quantum mechanics