Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Richardson, Alan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

If there is a movement or school that epitomizes analytic philosophy in the middle of the twentieth century, it is logical empiricism. Logical empiricists created a scientifically and technically informed philosophy of science, established mathematical logic as a topic in and tool for philosophy, and initiated the project of formal semantics. Accounts of analytic philosophy written in the middle of the twentieth century gave logical empiricism a central place in the project. The second wave of interpretative accounts was constructed to show how philosophy should progress, or had progressed, beyond logical empiricism. The essays survey the formative stages of logical empiricism in central Europe and its acculturation in North America, discussing its main topics, and achievements and failures, in different areas of philosophy of science, and assessing its influence on philosophy, past, present, and future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139797245
• Artikelnr.: 38280265

Autorenporträt

Alan W. Richardson is professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia.
Thomas E. Uebel is professor of philosophy at the University of Manchester.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. The Historical Context of Logical Empiricsm: 1. The
Vienna circle: context, profile, and development Friedrich Stadler; 2. The
Berlin 'Society for Empirical/Scientific Philosophy' Dieter Hoffman;
3. From 'The Life of the Present' to the 'Icy Slopes of Logic': logical
empiricism, the unity of science movement and the Cold War George Reisch;
Part II. Logical Empiricism: Issues in General Philosophy of Science: 4.
Coordination, constitution, and convention: the evolution of the a priori
in logical empiricism Michael Friedman; 5. Confirmation, probability, and
logical empiricism Maria Carla Galavotti; 6. The structure of scientific
theories in logical empiricism Thomas Mormann; Part III. Logical Empiricism
and the Philosophy of the Special Sciences: 7. The turning point and the
revolution: philosophy of mathematics in logical empiricism from Tractatus
to Logical Syntax Steve Awodey and A.W. Carus; 8. Logical empiricism and
the philosophy of physics Thomas Ryckman; 9. Logical empiricism and the
philosophy of psychology Gary L. Hardcastle; 10. Logical empiricism and the
history and sociology of science Elisabeth Nemeth; 11. Philosophy of social
science in early logical empiricism: the case of radical physicalism Thomas
Uebel; Part IV. Logical Empiricism and Its Critics: 12. Wittgenstein, the
Vienna circle, and physicalism: a reassessment David Stern; 13. Vienna, the
city of Quine's dreams Richard Creath; 14. That sort of everyday image of
logical positivism: Thomas Kuhn and the decline of logical empiricist
philosophy of science Alan Richardson.