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Title Origins of logical empiricism / edited by Ronald N. Giere and Alan W. Richardson.

Publication Info. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1996]
©1996

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Description vii, 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 16
Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 16.
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.
Logical positivism.
Added Author Giere, Ronald N.
Richardson, Alan W.
ISBN 0816628343 hardcover acid-free paper