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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814346803321

Titolo

Logical empiricism in North America / / Gary L. Hardcastle and Alan W. Richardson, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2003

ISBN

0-8166-9525-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (324 p.)

Collana

Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; ; v. 18

Altri autori (Persone)

HardcastleGary L

RichardsonAlan W

Disciplina

501 s

146/.42/097

Soggetti

Logical positivism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: Logical Empiricism in North America; 1. Logical Empiricism, American Pragmatism, and the Fate of Scientific Philosophy in North America; 2. Two Left Turns Make a Right: On the Curious Political Career of North American Philosophy of Science at Midcentury; 3. Hempel and the Vienna Circle; 4. On Herbert Feigl; 5. Edgar Zilsel in America; 6. Philipp Frank's History of the Vienna Circle: A Programmatic Retrospective; 7. Debabelizing Science: The Harvard Science of Science Discussion Group, 1940-41; 8. Disunity in the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science

9. Transfer and Transformation of Logical Empiricism: Quantitative and Qualitative Aspects10. The Linguistic Doctrine and Conventionality: The Main Argument in "Carnap and Logical Truth"; 11. Languages and Calculi; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This latest volume in the longest-standing and most influential series in the field of the philosophy of science expands on the discipline's recent turn. These essays take up the historical, sociological, and philosophical questions surrounding the movement of logical empiricism.