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Author : Michael Friedman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521624762
A reinterpretation of the enduring significance of logical positivism.
Author : Michael Friedman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999-07-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521624495
In this collection of essays one of the preeminent philosophers of science writing today offers a reinterpretation of the enduring significance of logical positivism, the revolutionary philosophical movement centered around the Vienna Circle in the 1920s and '30s. Michael Friedman argues that the logical positivists were radicals not by presenting a new version of empiricism (as is often thought to be the case) but rather by offering a new conception of a priori knowledge and its role in empirical knowledge. This collection will be mandatory reading for any philosopher or historian of science interested in the history of logical positivism in particular or the evolution of modern philosophy in general.
Author : Oswald Hanfling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015005228575
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 : Alfred Jules Ayer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Logical positivism
ISBN : 9780029011300
Author : Moritz Schlick
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1980-03-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9027709416
Author : Julius Rudolph Weinberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317833154
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 : S. N. Ganguly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Logical positivism
ISBN : UOM:39015069667718
Author : Alfred Jules Ayer
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486113098
"A delightful book … I should like to have written it myself." — Bertrand Russell First published in 1936, this first full-length presentation in English of the Logical Positivism of Carnap, Neurath, and others has gone through many printings to become a classic of thought and communication. It not only surveys one of the most important areas of modern thought; it also shows the confusion that arises from imperfect understanding of the uses of language. A first-rate antidote for fuzzy thought and muddled writing, this remarkable book has helped philosophers, writers, speakers, teachers, students, and general readers alike. Mr. Ayers sets up specific tests by which you can easily evaluate statements of ideas. You will also learn how to distinguish ideas that cannot be verified by experience — those expressing religious, moral, or aesthetic experience, those expounding theological or metaphysical doctrine, and those dealing with a priori truth. The basic thesis of this work is that philosophy should not squander its energies upon the unknowable, but should perform its proper function in criticism and analysis.
Author : Barry Gower
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39076000605159
1986 is the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of A. J. Ayer's Language, Truth and Logic, which is commonly considered one of the most influential books in twentieth-century philosophy. These essays offer a comprehensive appraisal of the influence and impact of Ayer's work and analyze the ways in which Ayer's arguments have been absorbed, modified, or rejected by various philosophers. A noteworthy feature of the book is an original essay by A. J. Ayer that assesses the influence of his work in philosophy over the last fifty years.
Author : Stefano Gattei
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351879101
Presenting a critical history of the philosophy of science in the twentieth century, focusing on the transition from logical positivism in its first half to the "new philosophy of science" in its second, Stefano Gattei examines the influence of several key figures, but the main focus of the book are Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper. Kuhn as the central figure of the new philosophy of science, and Popper as a key philosopher of the time who stands outside both traditions. Gattei makes two important claims about the development of the philosophy of science in the twentieth century; that Kuhn is much closer to positivism than many have supposed, failing to solve the crisis of neopostivism, and that Popper, in responding to the deeper crisis of foundationalism that spans the whole of the Western philosophical tradition, ultimately shows what is untenable in Kuhn's view. Gattei has written a very detailed and fine grained, yet accessible discussion making exceptionally interesting use of archive materials.
Author : Michael Friedman
Publisher : Stanford Univ Center for the Study
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1575862921
This book introduces a new approach to the issue of radical scientific revolutions, or "paradigm-shifts," given prominence in the work of Thomas Kuhn. The book articulates a dynamical and historicized version of the conception of scientific a priori principles first developed by the philosopher Immanuel Kant. This approach defends the Enlightenment ideal of scientific objectivity and universality while simultaneously doing justice to the revolutionary changes within the sciences that have since undermined Kant's original defense of this ideal. Through a modified Kantian approach to epistemology and philosophy of science, this book opposes both Quinean naturalistic holism and the post-Kuhnian conceptual relativism that has dominated recent literature in science studies. Focussing on the development of "scientific philosophy" from Kant to Rudolf Carnap, along with the parallel developments taking place in the sciences during the same period, the author articulates a new dynamical conception of relativized a priori principles. This idea applied within the physical sciences aims to show that rational intersubjective consensus is intricately preserved across radical scientific revolutions or "paradigm-shifts and how this is achieved.
Author : Michael Friedman,Richard Creath
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521840156
This book explores the major themes of Carnap's philosophy and discusses his relationship with the Vienna Circle.
Author : Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Logical positivism
ISBN : UCD:31175001278772
Author : Robert C. Scharff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134626809
In recent decades, widespread rejection of positivism’s notorious hostility toward the philosophical tradition has led to renewed debate about the real relationship of philosophy to its history. How History Matters to Philosophy takes a fresh look at this debate. Current discussion usually starts with the question of whether philosophy’s past should matter, but Scharff argues that the very existence of the debate itself demonstrates that it already does matter. After an introductory review of the recent literature, he develops his case in two parts. In Part One, he shows how history actually matters for even Plato’s Socrates, Descartes, and Comte, in spite of their apparent promotion of conspicuously ahistorical Platonic, Cartesian, and Positivistic ideals. In Part Two, Scharff argues that the real issue is not whether history matters; rather it is that we already have a history, a very distinctive and unavoidable inheritance, which paradoxically teaches us that history’s mattering is merely optional. Through interpretations of Dilthey, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, he describes what thinking in a historically determinate way actually involves, and he considers how to avoid the denial of this condition that our own philosophical inheritance still seems to expect of us. In a brief conclusion, Scharff explains how this book should be read as part of his own effort to acknowledge this condition rather than deny it.
Author : Alfred Jules Ayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Logical positivism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019971345