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He studied at the University of Freiburg in the fields Natural Sciences and Chemistry. He earned his Doctorate in Chemistry and Philosophy, and worked as a chemist until 1933.
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Born in Frankfurt, Germany
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Kurt Grelling and Paul Oppenheim, "The Gestalt concept in light of the new logic," cognition 7 (1937/38), pp. 211-225 and "Supplemental Remarks on the Concepts of Gasalt" pp. 357-359. http://web.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy1.apus.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=11&sid=9f6fa03c-d485-497e-ac4d-0251c07042be%40pdc-v-sessmgr01
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After his parents took their lives together in 1933, he and his family immigrated to the US and became a private scholar at Princeton. He became good friends with Albert Einstein.
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Grelling, Kurt, and Paul Oppenheim. “Logical Analysis of 'Gestalt' as 'Functional Whole,' Preprinted for Distribution at the Fifth Inductional Congress for the Unity of Science," Cambridge, MA.” 1939, doi:http://web.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy1.apus.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=11&sid=9f6fa03c-d485-497e-ac4d-0251c07042be%40pdc-v-sessmgr01.
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Hempel, Carl G, and Paul Oppenheim. “A Definition of 'Degree of Confirmation” Philosophy of Science 12, 1945, pp. 98-115, doi:http://web.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy1.apus.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=11&sid=9f6fa03c-d485-497e-ac4d-0251c07042be%40pdc-v-sessmgr01.
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Hempel, Carl G, and Paul Oppenheim. “A Syntactical Definition of Probability and of Degree of Confirmaion.” The Journal of Symbolic Logic, vol. 10, 1945, pp. 25–60., doi:http://web.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy1.apus.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=11&sid=9f6fa03c-d485-497e-ac4d-0251c07042be%40pdc-v-sessmgr01.
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Paul Oppenheim worked with many scientists from Carl Hempel and creating the Deduction-nomological model for scientific explanations in 1948. He studied how science progressed with this model. He also worked with Hilary Putnum on The Unity of Science, which brings to thought if the natural sciences could be put under one blanket theory. Can all sciences be related under one blanket?
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Oppenheim, Paul, and Nicholas Rescher. “Logical Analysis of Gestalt Concepts.” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science , vol. 6, 1955, pp. 89–106., doi:http://web.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy1.apus.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=11&sid=9f6fa03c-d485-497e-ac4d-0251c07042be%40pdc-v-sessmgr01.
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Oppenheim, Paul. “Dimensions of Knowledge.” Reveu internationale de philosophie, vol. 11, 1957 pp. 151-191., doi:http://web.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy1.apus.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=11&sid=9f6fa03c-d485-497e-ac4d-0251c07042be%40pdc-v-sessmgr01.
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Oppenheim, Paul, and Hilary Putnam. “Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis in Herbert Feigl Et. Al. (Eds) Has .” Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 11, 1958, pp. 3–36., doi:http://web.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy1.apus.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=11&sid=9f6fa03c-d485-497e-ac4d-0251c07042be%40pdc-v-sessmgr01.
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Paul Oppenheim died on June 22,1977 at 92 years old.
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