Minimal verificationism : on the limits of knowledge / / Gordian Haas

• Autore: Haas Gordian
• Pubblicazione: Boston, [Massachusetts] ; ; Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Disciplina: 121.2
• Soggetto topico: Verification (Empiricism); Logical positivism
• Soggetto non controllato: Criterion of Significance; Logical Empiricism; Verificationism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Introduction: Does This Make Nonsense to You? -- 1 Some Historic Formulations and Their Problems -- 2 More Problems Lie Ahead -- 3 Toward a Solution to the Problems -- 4 Minimal Verificationism -- 5 Fallibilist Theories of Justification -- 6 The Standard Theory of Belief Revision: AGM -- 7 Combining Theories of Justification and Belief Revision: Judas -- 8 Lewis’ Semantics for Counterfactuals -- 9 Towards a Verifiability-Friendly Semantics for Counterfactuals -- 10 (Non) Concluding Remarks -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Verificationism has been a hallmark of logical empiricism. According to this principle, a sentence is insignificant in a certain sense if its truth value cannot be determined. Although logical empiricists strove for decades to develop an adequate principle of verification, they failed to resolve its problems. This led to a general abandonment of the verificationist project in the early 1960's. In the last 50 years, this view has received tremendously bad press. Today it is mostly regarded as an outdated historical concept. Theories that have evolved since the abandonment of verificationism can, however, help overcome some of its key problems. More specifically, an adequate criterion of significance can be derived from a combination of modern theories of justification and belief revision, along with a formal semantics for counterfactuals. In view of these potential improvements, the abandonment of verificationism appears premature. Half a century following its decline, it might be about time to revisit this disreputable view. The author argues in favor of a weak form of verificationism. This approach could be referred to as minimal verificationism, as it involves a weakening of traditional verificationist principles in various respects while maintaining their core idea.
• Titolo autorizzato: Minimal verificationism
• ISBN: 1-5015-0198-4; 1-5015-0200-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797873103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Deutsche Hochschulschriften. . -Epistemische Studien ; ; Band 31.