Description |
vii, 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 16
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Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 16.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-377) and indexes. |
Contents |
Introduction: Origins of logical empiricism / Alan W. Richardson -- Constructing modernism: The cultural location of Aufbau / Peter Galison -- Overcoming metaphysics: Carnap and Heidegger / Michael Friedman -- Neurath against method / Nancy Cartwright and Jordi Cat -- The enlightenment ambition of epistemic utopianism: Otto Neurath's theory of science in historical perspective / Thomas E. Uebel -- Relativity, Eindeutigkeit, and monomorphism: Rudolf Carnap and the development of the categoricity concept in formal semantics / Don Howard -- Einstein Agonists: Weyl and Reichenbach on geometry and the general theory of relativity / T. A. Ryckman -- The philosophy of mathematics in early positivism / Warren Goldfinch -- Carnap: From logical syntax to semantics / Thomas Ricketts -- Languages without logic / Richard Creath -- Postscript to protocols: Reflections on empiricism / Thomas Oberdan -- Conceptual knowledge and intuitive experience: Schlick's dilemma / Joia Lewis Turner -- From epistemology to the logic of science: Carnap's philosophy of empirical knowledge in the 1930s / Alan W. Richardson -- From Wissenschaftliche philosophie to philosophy of science / Ronald N. Giere. |
Subject |
Logical positivism.
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Logical positivism. |
Added Author |
Giere, Ronald N.
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Richardson, Alan W.
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ISBN |
0816628343 hardcover acid-free paper |
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