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Origins of Logical Empiricism.
Title:
Origins of Logical Empiricism.
Author:
Giere, Ronald N.
ISBN:
9780816687565
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (401 pages)
Series:
Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science ; v.16

Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Origins of Logical Empiricism -- PART I: THE CULTURAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEXT -- Constructing Modernism: The Cultural Location of Aufbau -- Overcoming Metaphysics: Carnap and Heidegger -- Neurath against Method -- The Enlightenment Ambition of Epistemic Utopianism: Otto Neurath's Theory of Science in Historical Perspective -- PART II: SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, AND SCIENTIFIC PHILOSOPHY -- Relativity, Eindeutigkeit, and Monomorphism: Rudolf Carnap and the Development of the Categoricity Concept in Formal Semantics -- Einstein Agonists: Weyl and Reichenbach on Geometry and the General Theory of Relativity -- PART III: LOGIC, MATHEMATICS, AND PHILOSOPHY -- The Philosophy of Mathematics in Early Positivism -- Carnap: From Logical Syntax to Semantics -- Languages without Logic -- PART IV: EXPERIENCE, EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE, AND EMPIRICISM -- Postscript to Protocols: Reflections on Empiricism -- Conceptual Knowledge and Intuitive Experience: Schlick's Dilemma -- From Epistemology to the Logic of Science: Carnap's Philosophy of Empirical Knowledge in the 1930s -- PART V: AFTERWORD -- From Wissenschaftliche Philosophie to Philosophy of Science -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index of Authors -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Index of Subjects -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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