Logical empiricism : historical & contemporary perspectives /
This collection of essays reexamines the origins of logical empiricism and offers fresh insights into its relationship to contemporary philosophy of science.
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| Language: | English |
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Pittsburgh :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- A turning point in philosophy: Carnap-Cassirer-Heidegger / Michael Friedman
- Carnap's "Elimination of Metaphysics through Logical Analysis of Language": a retrospective consideration of the relationship between continental and analytic philosophy / Gottfried Gabriel
- Schlick and Husserl on the essence of knowledge / Roberta Lanfredini
- Carnap versus Gödel on syntax and tolerance / S. Awodey and A.W. Carus
- On the Austrian roots of logical empiricism: the case of the first Vienna circle / Thomas Uebel
- On the International encyclopedia, the Neurath-Carnap disputes, and the second world war / George Reisch
- Carl Gustav Hempel: pragmatic empiricist / Gereon Wolters
- The methods of the Tractatus: beyond positivism and metaphysics? / David G. Stern
- Two roads from Kant: Cassirer, Reichenbach and general relativity / T.A Ryckman
- Vienna indeterminism II: from Exner to Frank and von Mises / Michael Stöltzner
- The mind-body problem in the origin of logical empiricism: Herbert Feigl and psychological parallelism / Michael Heidelberger
- Logical positivism and the mind-body problem / Jaegwon Kim
- Kinds of probabilism / Maria Carla Galavotti
- Smooth lines in confirmation theory: Carnap, Hempel and the Moderns / Martin Carrier
- Changing conceptions of rationality: from logical empiricism to postpositivism
- Gürol Irzik
- Reason and perception in defense of a non-linguistic version of empiricism / Paolo Parrini
- Commit it then to the flames ... / Wesley C. Salmon.
