Logical Positivism And Analysis

Author : Julius Rudolph Weinberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317833154

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An Examination of Logical Positivism by Julius Rudolph Weinberg Pdf

First published in 2000. This is Volume II of six in the Library of Philosophy series on the Philosophy of Science. Written in 1938, philosophical systems which employ logical methods almost exclusively would undoubtedly be expected to produce non-empirical results. If, however, logic is taken simply as a method of connecting meanings it is not difficult to reconcile logical methods with empirical results. If logical formular, in other words, assert nothing about the meanings of propositions, but simply show how such meanings are connected, then an empiricism based on a logical analysis of meanings is not inconsistent. This is what the Logical Positivists have attempted to do. This book looks at two areas: the foundations of a scientific method free from metaphysics, and the elimination of pseudo-concepts introduced by metaphysics into science and philosophy.

Author : Alfred Jules Ayer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Logical positivism
ISBN : 9780029011300

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Logical Positivism by Alfred Jules Ayer Pdf

Author : Oswald Hanfling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015005228575

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Logical Positivism by Oswald Hanfling Pdf

This book is a compact, accessible treatment of the main ideas advanced by the positivists, including Schlick, Carnap, Ayer, and the early Wittgenstein. Oswald Hanfling discusses such ideas as the 'verification principle' ('the meaning of this statement is the method of its verification') and the 'elimination of metaphysics, ' an attempt to show that metaphysical statements, for example about God, are unverifiable and therefore meaningless.

Author : L. Susan Stebbing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1974-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0849021804

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Logical Positivism and Analysis by L. Susan Stebbing Pdf

Author : S. N. Ganguly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Logical positivism
ISBN : UOM:39015069667718

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Logical Positivism as a Theory of Meaning by S. N. Ganguly Pdf

Author : Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Logical positivism
ISBN : UCD:31175001278772

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A Critique of Logical Positivism by Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad Pdf

Author : Lizzie Susan Stebbing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Philosophy, Modern
ISBN : OCLC:942336

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Analysis, Logical Positivism and by Lizzie Susan Stebbing Pdf

Author : Herbert Feigl
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1980-11-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9027711011

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Inquiries and Provocations by Herbert Feigl Pdf

The title is his own. Herbert Feigl, the provocateur and the soul (if we may put it so) of modesty, wrote to me some years ago, "I'm more of a catalyst than producer of new and original ideas all my life . . . ", but then he com pleted the self-appraisal: " . . . with just a few exceptions perhaps". We need not argue for the creative nature of catalysis, but will simply remark that there are 'new and original ideas' in the twenty-four papers selected for this volume, in the extraordinary aperrus of the 25-year-old Feigl in his Vienna dissertation of 1927 on Zufall und Gesetz, in the creative critique and articulation in his classical monograph of 1958 on The 'Mental' and the 'Physical'; and the reader will want to turn to some of the seventy other titles in our Feigl bibliography appended. Professor Feigl has been a model philosophical worker: above all else, honest, self-aware, open-minded and open-hearted; keenly, devotedly, and even arduously the student of the sciences, he has been a logician and an empiricist. Early on, he brought the Vienna Circle to America, and much later he helped to bring it back to Central Europe. The story of the logical empiricist movement, and of Herbert Feigl's part in it, has often been told, importantly by Feigl himself in four papers we have included here.

Author : Moritz Schlick,Rudolf Carnap,Otto Neurath
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Blanshard, Brand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317852285

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Reason and Analysis by Blanshard, Brand Pdf

This is Volume II in a series of seventeen on Metaphysics. Originally published in 1962, The Muirhead Library of Philosophy was designed as a contribution to the History of Modern Philosophy under the heads: first of Different Schools of Thought-Sensationalist, Realist, Idealist, Intuitivist; secondly of different Subjects-Psychology, Ethics, Political Philosophy and Theology.

Author : Rudolf Carnap
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
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 : Rudolf Carnap
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0812695232

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The Logical Structure of the World by Rudolf Carnap Pdf

Available for the first time in 20 years, here are two important works from the 1920s by the best-known representative of the Vienna Circle. In The Logical Structure of the World, Carnap adopts the position of "methodological solipsism" and shows that it is possible to describe the world from the immediate data of experience. In his Pseudoproblems in Philosophy, he asserts that many philosophical problems are meaningless.

Author : B.F. McGuinness
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400717510

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Friedrich Waismann - Causality and Logical Positivism by B.F. McGuinness Pdf

Friedrich Waismann (1896–1959) was one of the most gifted students and collaborators of Moritz Schlick. Accepted as a discussion partner by Wittgenstein from 1927 on, he functioned as spokesman for the latter’s ideas in the Schlick Circle, until Wittgenstein’s contact with this most faithful interpreter was broken off in 1935 and not renewed when exile took Waismann to Cambridge. Nonetheless, at Oxford, where he went in 1939, and eventually became Reader in Philosophy of Mathematics (changing later to Philosophy of Science), Waismann made important and independent contributions to analytic philosophy and philosophy of science (for example in relation to probability, causality and linguistic analysis). The full extent of these only became evident later when the larger (unpublished) part of his writings could be studied. His first posthumous work The Principles of Linguistic Philosophy (1965, 2nd edn.1997; German 1976) and his earlier Einführung in das mathematische Denken (1936) have recently proved of fresh interest to the scientific community. This late flowering and new understanding of Waismann’s position is connected with the fact that he somewhat unfairly fell under the shadow of Wittgenstein, his mentor and predecessor. Central to this book about a life and work familiar to few is unpublished and unknown works on causality and probability. These are commented on in this volume, which will also include a publication of new or previously scattered material and an overview of Waismann’s life.

Author : Frederick Charles Copleston
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0826469051

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Logical Positivism and Existentialism by Frederick Charles Copleston Pdf

Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit and specialist in the history of philosophy, first created his history as an introduction for Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries. However, since its first publication (the last volume appearing in the mid-1970s) the series has become the classic account for all philosophy scholars and students. The 11-volume series gives an accessible account of each philosopher's work, but also explains their relationship to the work of other philosophers.

Author : Gustav Bergmann
Publisher : Madison : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Logical positivism
ISBN : UOM:39015003493742

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The Metaphysics of Logical Positivism by Gustav Bergmann Pdf