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The Cambridge companion to logical empiricism

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The Cambridge companion to logical empiricism

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.

New York

Cambridge University Press

2007

xi, 430 p.; 24 cm

Cambridge companions to philosophy

Includes bibliographical references )p. 371-417( and index

ISBN: 9780521796286

edited by Alan Richardson, Thomas Uebel

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The historical context of logical empiricism -- Logical empiricism: issues in general philosophy of science -- Logical empiricism and the philosophy of the special sciences -- Logical empiricism and its critics

، Logical positivism

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AU Uebel, Thomas E.)Thomas Ernst( 1952-

AU Richardson, Alan W.

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