| Description |
xxix, 293 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 18
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Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 18.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Logical empiricism, American pragmatism, and the fate of scientific philosophy in North America / Alan W. Richardson -- Two left turns make a right: on the curious political career of North American philosophy of science at midcentury / Don Howard -- Hempel and the Vienna circle / Michael Friedman -- On Herbert Feigl / Rudolf Haller / Edgar Zilsel in America / Diederick Raven -- Philipp Frank's history of the Vienna circle: a programmatic retrospective / Thomas E. Uebel -- Debabelizing science: the Harvard science of science discussion group, 1940-41 / Gary L. Hardcastle / Disunity in the international encyclopedia of unified science / George Reisch -- Transfer and transformation of logical empiricism: quantitative and qualitative aspects / Friedrich K. Stadler -- The linguistic doctrine and conventionality: the main argument in "carnap and logical truth" / Richard Creath -- Languages and calculi / Thomas Ricketts. |
| Subject |
Logical positivism.
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Logical positivism. |
| Added Author |
Hardcastle, Gary L.
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Richardson, Alan W.
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| ISBN |
0816642214 |
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