Logical Empiricism And The Physical Sciences

Author : Sebastian Lutz,Adam Tamas Tuboly
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 443 pages
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Release : 2021-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429771163

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Logical Empiricism and the Physical Sciences by Sebastian Lutz,Adam Tamas Tuboly Pdf

This volume has two primary aims: to trace the traditions and changes in methods, concepts, and ideas that brought forth the logical empiricists’ philosophy of physics and to present and analyze the logical empiricists’ various and occasionally contrary ideas about the physical sciences and their philosophical relevance. These original chapters discuss these developments in their original contexts and social and institutional environments, thus showing the various fruitful conceptions and philosophies behind the history of 20th-century philosophy of science. Logical Empiricism and the Natural Sciences is divided into three thematic sections. Part I surveys the influences on logical empiricism’s philosophy of science and physics. It features chapters on Maxwell’s role in the worldview of logical empiricism, on Reichenbach’s account of objectivity, on the impact of Poincaré on Neurath’s early views on scientific method, Frank’s exchanges with Einstein about philosophy of physics, and on the forgotten role of Kurt Grelling. Part II focuses on specific physical theories, including Carnap’s and Reichenbach’s positions on Einstein’s theory of general relativity, Reichenbach’s critique of unified field theory, and the logical empiricists’ reactions to quantum mechanics. The third and final group of chapters widens the scope to philosophy of science and physics in general. It includes contributions on von Mises’ frequentism; Frank’s account of concept formation and confirmation; and the interrelations between Nagel’s, Feigl’s, and Hempel’s versions of logical empiricism. This book offers a comprehensive account of the logical empiricists’ philosophy of physics. It is a valuable resource for researchers interested in the history and philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, and the history of analytic philosophy.

Author : William Demopoulos
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 273 pages
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Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674269729

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On Theories by William Demopoulos Pdf

A renowned philosopher’s final work, illuminating how the logical empiricist tradition has failed to appreciate the role of actual experiments in forming its philosophy of science. The logical empiricist treatment of physics dominated twentieth-century philosophy of science. But the logical empiricist tradition, for all it accomplished, does not do justice to the way in which empirical evidence functions in modern physics. In his final work, the late philosopher of science William Demopoulos contends that philosophers have failed to provide an adequate epistemology of science because they have failed to appreciate the tightly woven character of theory and evidence. As a consequence, theory comes apart from evidence. This trouble is nowhere more evident than in theorizing about particle and quantum physics. Arguing that we must consider actual experiments as they have unfolded across history, Demopoulos provides a new epistemology of theories and evidence, albeit one that stands on the shoulders of giants. On Theories finds clarity in Isaac Newton’s suspicion of mere “hypotheses.” Newton’s methodology lies in the background of Jean Perrin’s experimental investigations of molecular reality and of the subatomic investigations of J. J. Thomson and Robert Millikan. Demopoulos extends this account to offer novel insights into the distinctive nature of quantum reality, where a logico-mathematical reconstruction of Bohrian complementarity meets John Stewart Bell’s empirical analysis of Einstein’s “local realism.” On Theories ultimately provides a new interpretation of quantum probabilities as themselves objectively representing empirical reality.

Author : Ronald N. Giere,Alan W. Richardson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0816628343

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Origins of Logical Empiricism by Ronald N. Giere,Alan W. Richardson Pdf

Logical empiricism remains a strong influence in the philosophy of science, despite the discipline's shift toward more historical and naturalistic approaches. This latest volume in the eminent Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science series examines the main features of the intellectual milieu from which logical empiricism sprang, providing the first critical exploration of this context by authors within the Anglo-American analytic tradition of philosophy. These articles challenge the idea that logical empiricism has its origins in traditional British empiricism, pointing instead to a movement of scientific philosophy that flourished in the German-speaking areas of Europe in the first four decades of the twentieth century. The intellectual refugees from the Third Reich who brought logical empiricism to North America did so in an environment influenced by Einstein's new physics, the ascension of modern logic, the birth of the social sciences as rivals to traditional humanistic philosophy, and other large-scale social, political, and cultural themes.

Author : Rudolf Carnap
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 71 pages
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Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136654282

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The Unity of Science by Rudolf Carnap Pdf

As a leading member of the Vienna Circle, Rudolph Carnap's aim was to bring about a "unified science" by applying a method of logical analysis to the empirical data of all the sciences. This work, first published in English in 1934, endeavors to work out a way in which the observation statements required for verification are not private to the observer. The work shows the strong influence of Wittgenstein, Russell, and Frege.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0080548547

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General Philosophy of Science: Focal Issues by Anonim Pdf

Scientists use concepts and principles that are partly specific for their subject matter, but they also share part of them with colleagues working in different fields. Compare the biological notion of a 'natural kind' with the general notion of 'confirmation' of a hypothesis by certain evidence. Or compare the physical principle of the 'conservation of energy' and the general principle of 'the unity of science'. Scientists agree that all such notions and principles aren't as crystal clear as one might wish. An important task of the philosophy of the special sciences, such as philosophy of physics, of biology and of economics, to mention only a few of the many flourishing examples, is the clarification of such subject specific concepts and principles. Similarly, an important task of 'general' philosophy of science is the clarification of concepts like 'confirmation' and principles like 'the unity of science'. It is evident that clarfication of concepts and principles only makes sense if one tries to do justice, as much as possible, to the actual use of these notions by scientists, without however following this use slavishly. That is, occasionally a philosopher may have good reasons for suggesting to scientists that they should deviate from a standard use. Frequently, this amounts to a plea for differentiation in order to stop debates at cross-purposes due to the conflation of different meanings. While the special volumes of the series of Handbooks of the Philosophy of Science address topics relative to a specific discipline, this general volume deals with focal issues of a general nature. After an editorial introduction about the dominant method of clarifying concepts and principles in philosophy of science, called explication, the first five chapters deal with the following subjects. Laws, theories, and research programs as units of empirical knowledge (Theo Kuipers), various past and contemporary perspectives on explanation (Stathis Psillos), the evaluation of theories in terms of their virtues (Ilkka Niiniluto), and the role of experiments in the natural sciences, notably physics and biology (Allan Franklin), and their role in the social sciences, notably economics (Wenceslao Gonzalez). In the subsequent three chapters there is even more attention to various positions and methods that philosophers of science and scientists may favor: ontological, epistemological, and methodological positions (James Ladyman), reduction, integration, and the unity of science as aims in the sciences and the humanities (William Bechtel and Andrew Hamilton), and logical, historical and computational approaches to the philosophy of science (Atocha Aliseda and Donald Gillies). The volume concludes with the much debated question of demarcating science from nonscience (Martin Mahner) and the rich European-American history of the philosophy of science in the 20th century (Friedrich Stadler). Comprehensive coverage of the philosophy of science written by leading philosophers in this field Clear style of writing for an interdisciplinary audience No specific pre-knowledge required

Author : Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Philosophy of Physical Science by Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington Pdf

Author : Sahotra Sarkar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0815322623

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The Emergence of Logical Empiricism by Sahotra Sarkar Pdf

Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company production in 1991. The criticism centers on three aspects of the play: the love/friendship debate.

Author : Alan Richardson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781009471480

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Logical Empiricism as Scientific Philosophy by Alan Richardson Pdf

This Element offers a new account of the philosophical significance of logical empiricism that relies on the past forty years of literature reassessing the project. It argues that while logical empiricism was committed to empiricism and did become tied to the trajectory of analytic philosophy, neither empiricism nor logical analysis per se was the deepest philosophical commitment of logical empiricism. That commitment was, rather, securing the scientific status of philosophy, bringing philosophy into a scientific conception of the world.

Author : F. Stadler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780306482144

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The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism by F. Stadler Pdf

This work is for scholars, researchers and students in history and philosophy of science focusing on Logical Empiricism and analytic philosophy (of science). It provides historical and systematic research and deals with the influence and impact of the Vienna Circle/Logical Empiricism on today's philosophy of science. It also explores the intellectual context of this scientific philosophy and focuses on main figures and peripheral adherents.

Author : Alan W. Richardson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521430081

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Carnap's Construction of the World by Alan W. Richardson Pdf

This book is a major contribution to the history of analytic philosophy in general and of logical positivism in particular. It provides the first detailed and comprehensive study of Rudolf Carnap, one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century philosophy. The focus of the book is Carnap's first major work: Der logische Aufbau der Welt (The Logical Structure of the World). It reveals tensions within the context of German epistemology and philosophy of science in the early twentieth century. Alan Richardson argues that Carnap's move to philosophy of science in the 1930s was largely an attempt to dissolve the tension in his early epistemology. This book fills a significant gap in the literature on the history of twentieth-century philosophy. It will be of particular importance to historians of analytic philosophy, philosophers of science, and historians of science.

Author : Moritz Schlick,Rudolf Carnap,Otto Neurath
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0815322631

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Logical Empiricism at Its Peak by Moritz Schlick,Rudolf Carnap,Otto Neurath Pdf

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Philipp Frank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Logical positivism
ISBN : UOM:39015015209011

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Between Physics and Philosophy by Philipp Frank Pdf

Author : Sahotra Sarkar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0815322658

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Logical Empiricism and the Special Sciences by Sahotra Sarkar Pdf

Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company production in 1991. The criticism centers on three aspects of the play: the love/friendship debate.

Author : R CREATH
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400739291

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Rudolf Carnap and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism by R CREATH Pdf

This Institute's Yearbook for the most part, documents its recent activities and provides a forum for the discussion of exact philosophy, logical and empirical investigations, and analysis of language. This volume holds a collection of papers on various aspects of the work of Rudolf Carnap by an international group of distinguished scholars.​

Author : Maria Neurath,Sahotra Sarkar,Moritz Schlick,Rudolf Carnap
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000525069

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Logical Empiricism at Its Peak by Maria Neurath,Sahotra Sarkar,Moritz Schlick,Rudolf Carnap Pdf

First Published in 1996. This volume reprints pieces from the Vienna Circle period between the manifesto and the adoption of semantics, as well as two commentaries. During this period, the logical empiricists were the most ambitious and the most confident about the success of their enterprise. The first section consists of four ideological classics, The second section reprints three papers on physicalism. The third section consists of three papers on logic and the fourth on reprints three papers on truth, induction, and confirmation.