Logical empiricism
Subtitle: historical & contemporary perspectives
By: edited by Paolo Parrini, Wesley C. Salmon, Merrilee H. Salmon.
Contributors: Parrini, Paolo.; Salmon, Wesley C.; Salmon, Merrilee H.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Pittsburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
Subjects: Logical positivism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A turning point in philosophy: Carnap-Cassirer-Heidegger / Michael Friedman; title: Carnap's "Elimination of Metaphysics through Logical Analysis of Language": a retrospective consideration of the relationship between continental and analytic philosophy / Gottfried Gabriel; title: Schlick and Husserl on the essence of knowledge / Roberta Lanfredini; title: Carnap versus Gödel on syntaz and tolerance / S. Awodey and A.W. Carus; title: On the Austrian roots of logical empiricism: the case of the first Vienna circle / Thomas Uebel; title: On the International encyclopedia, the Neurath-Carnap disputes, and the second world war / George Reisch; title: Carl Gustav Hempel: pragmatic empiricist / Gereon Wolters; title: The methods of the Tractatus: beyond positivism and metaphysics? / David G. Stern; title: Two roads from Kant: Cassirer, Reichenbach and general relativity / T.A Ryckman; title: Vienna indeterminism II: from Exner to Frank and von Mises / Michael Stöltzner; title: The mind-body problem in the origin of logical empiricism: Herbert Feigl and psychological parallelism / Michael Heidelberger; title: Logical positivism and the mind-body problem / Jaegwon Kim; title: Kinds of probabilism / Maria Carla Galavotti; title: Smooth lines in confirmation theory: Carnap, Hempel and the Moderns / Martin Carrier; title: Changing conceptions of rationality: from logical empiricism to postpositivism - Gürol Irzik; title: Reason and perception in defense of a non-linguistic version of empiricism / Paolo Parrini; title: Commit it then to the flames ... / Wesley C. Salmon.