Logical empiricism in North America

Logical empiricism in North America / Gary L. Hardcastle and Alan W. Richardson, editors.

This latest volume in the longest-standing and most influential series in the field of the philosophy of science expands on the disciplines recent turn. These essays take up the historical, sociological, and philosophical questions surrounding the movement of logical empiricism.

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Other Authors: Hardcastle, Gary L., Richardson, Alan W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2003.
Series:Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 18.
Subjects:
Logical positivism.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > General.
Logical positivism
Logisch positivisme.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Logical Empiricism in North America; 1. Logical Empiricism, American Pragmatism, and the Fate of Scientific Philosophy in North America; 2. Two Left Turns Make a Right: On the Curious Political Career of North American Philosophy of Science at Midcentury; 3. Hempel and the Vienna Circle; 4. On Herbert Feigl; 5. Edgar Zilsel in America; 6. Philipp Frank's History of the Vienna Circle: A Programmatic Retrospective; 7. Debabelizing Science: The Harvard Science of Science Discussion Group, 1940-41; 8. Disunity in the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science.

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